FortigateCNF Hands-on Lab

1. Verify Access

AWS Console Login

Access the AWS console using this URL: AWS Console Login

AccountID / IAM user name / Password (check with your instructor)

2. In Lab 1, we will prepare the following LAB environment

Cloud9 AWS environment

Use region eu-west-1 (ireland)
Create an AWS Cloud9 instance:

  • Instance type: t2.micro
  • Platform: Amazon Linux 2
  • Timeout: 30 minutes
  • Connection: AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
  • VPC Settings: keep default value

AWS access-key and secret-key

An AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY is already created (check with your instructor)

Subscribe to the EC2 AMIon AWS Marketplace

Go to "Minimal Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Jammy" AMI to subscribe and accept the terms.

Access the Cloud9 instance, and clone the LAB repo

Clone following repo in /environment in your Cloud9 env

git clone https://github.com/40net-cloud/xpert2023_aws_networking_demystified.git

LAB 1: Lab Setup: Intra-Subnet / Single-VPC Use-case

See Lab 1

Environment cleanup after finishing all labs

At the end of our session destroy all environments:

  • remove the endpoints form your TF variables.tf
  • re-run your TF terraform apply
  • remove all Fortigate CNF instances from the Fortigate CNF UI
  • destroy your terraform infra terraform destroy
  • remove all registered accounts from the Fortigate CNF UI (wait until the CNF instance is deleted from the "CNF Instances" tab ... this can take few minutes)
  • remove the cloudformation template 'FortinetForigateStackName' from AWS region eu-west-1 (Ireland)
  • Delete the cloudformation template for your Cloud9 instance
  • delete all EC2 key-pairs (EC2 > key-pairs)

Thank you, the next student will thank you as well as the instructor who knows your name ;-)