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Amazon AWS Lab Environment Guide

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The AWS CFT is currently in testing and not complete. This notice will be updated as progress is made. This functionality should be available by Dec 1st 2017. <--- need to update????

Warning

The AWS CFT will run in your account. The template includes components and instances that will incur a charge. This charge will be billed to your account.

You can use an Amazon CloudFormation Template (CFT) to launch your own lab environment in AWS. This guide assumes the following:

More information about AWS can be found here:

https://aws.amazon.com/

Task 1 - Determine your Source IP Address

The AWS lab environment restricts access based on your Source IP Address. We will use a website to determine your Source IP for use in the next Task.

Note

If your Source IP address changes you will lose access to your environment.

Perform the following steps to complete this task:

  1. Open a web browser window or tab and navigate to https://www.whatismyip.com/
  2. Copy the IP Address shown in the :guilabel:`Your IP Address is:` box into your clipboard

Task 2 - Launch the CloudFormation Template

Perform the following steps to complete this task:

  1. Login to your AWS Management Console

    Note

    Access to the console is determined by your individual account setup.

    If you are using a personal account you should be able to login using https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

    If you are using a corporate account please contact your IT Help Desk.

  2. Click :guilabel:`Services` at the top of the window. Then type cloud into the search box and look for the :guilabel:`CloudFormation` item. Click on the :guilabel:`CloudFormation` item:

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  3. Click the :guilabel:`Create Stack` button:

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  4. On the :guilabel:`Select Template` screen, select the :guilabel:`Specify an Amazon S3 template URL` option. Copy and paste the URL below into the box:

    https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/supernetops-cf-templates/class1.template

    Click on the :guilabel:`Next` button

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  5. Complete the form in the :guilabel:`Specify Details` screen:

  6. Click the :guilabel:`Next` button

  7. On the :guilabel:`Options` screen click the :guilabel:`Next` button at the bottom of the screen

  8. On the :guilabel:`Review` screen check the I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names field and click the :guilabel:`Create` button at the bottom of the screen

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  9. Click the Super-NetOps-Lab stack to view details of the deployment

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  10. Monitor the :guilabel:`Events` section of the page as the Stack deploys:

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  11. The CFT used performs a nested deployment, leveraging other CFT's. The :guilabel:`Events` will notify you when new status messages are available. Total deployment time varies. As the Stack is being deployed you will see periodic CREATE_COMPLETE messages:

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  12. You can also go back to the page listing 'Stacks' and monitor the progress of the nested templates from there:

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  13. Once the :guilabel:`Status` of the Super-NetOps-Lab root stack shows CREATE_COMPLETE click the :guilabel:`Outputs` tab. You will see a :guilabel:`Key` named JumpHostPublicIP. The :guilabel:`Value` is the IP Address you can use to connect to the Lab Jumphost using RDP, HTTPS or SSH (diagnostics only).

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  14. You can now connect to the Jumphost using RDP or HTTPS:

    • RDP: Configure your RDP client to connect to the JumpHostPublicIP
    • HTTPS: Use a HTML5 browser to connect to https://<JumpHostPublicIP>

  15. Select how you would like to continue: