Amazon AWS Lab Environment Guide¶

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.

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

   

3. Click the Create Stack button:

   

4. On the Select Template screen, select the 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 Next button

   

5. Complete the form in the Specify Details screen:

   • Stack Name: Super-NetOps-Lab or a name of your choice

   • Branch: master

   • InstanceType: t2.medium

   • KeyName: Select your AWS Key Pair

   • UserIP: Paste the IP Address from Task 1 and add /32 to to the end.

     Note

     You can also specify a CIDR formatted Subnet in this field

6. Click the Next button

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

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

   

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

   

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

    

11. The CFT used performs a nested deployment, leveraging other CFT’s. The 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:

    

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

    

    

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

    

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:

    • Review: BIG-IP Basics (optional)
    • Start: Module 1: Imperative Automation with the BIG-IP iControl REST API