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Rajeev R edited this page Oct 7, 2019 · 4 revisions

Launch CentOS7 EC2 Instance

  1. Open the EC2 console in your browser.

  2. Click on the Launch Instance button

  3. Select a CentOS (7.x+) AMI (We recommend chef-highperf-centos7-201711290007 (ami-0036ab7a))

  4. Select a "t2.micro" instance type

  5. Click on the "Review and Launch" button

  6. Click on the "Launch" button

  7. Select the appropriate “Existing RSA Key" so that you can later connect via SSH. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU CANNOT CONNECT TO THE MACHINE

  8. Click on “Launch Instances”. It will take some time to launch the instance.

Once the instance is up and running, provide a name to the Instance.

Now you can login into the installer box (ssh -i {your pem key} centos@{Installer IP Address}) and continue with the installation.

Note: Run centos7-provision.sh script to install the prerequisite

Launch Ubuntu EC2 Instance - Only for Scenario 2 or 3

  1. Open the EC2 console in your browser.

  2. Click on the Launch Instance button

  3. Select Ubuntu 18 AMI (We recommend Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

  4. Select a "t2.micro" instance type

  5. Click on the "Review and Launch" button

  6. Click on the "Launch" button

  7. Select the appropriate “Existing RSA Key" so that you can later connect via SSH. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU CANNOT CONNECT TO THE MACHINE

  8. Click on “Launch Instances”. It will take some time to launch the instance. Once the instance is up and running, provide a name to the Instance.

Now you can login into the installer box (ssh -i {your pem key} ubuntu@{Installer IP Address}) and continue with the installation.

Note: Run ubuntu-provision.sh script to install the prerequisite

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