Self Service Interfaces - Cloud Portal GELesson 3 – Launching an Instance

Álvaro Alonso. UPM – DITCloud Chapter. FIWAREaalonsog@dit.upm.es, @larsonalonso

Contents

1. Creating a Keypair2. Managing Security Groups3. Launching an Instance4. Assigning Floating IPs5. Connecting to the instance

Main Concepts

• Keypair– A key to access a VM via SSH

• Security Group– A set of rules for port mapping

• Floating IP– Public IP to expose the VM to the Internet

• Connecting to the instance– SSH– Display

Guidelines

• Connecting from Windows– PuTTY – To connect to the instance using SSH– PuTTYgen – To convert .pem to .ppk– http://www.putty.org/

Self Service Interfaces - Cloud Portal GELesson 3 – Launching an Instance

Álvaro Alonso. UPM – DITCloud Chapter. FIWAREaalonsog@dit.upm.es, @larsonalonso