In this lab you will perform a number of tasks and document your progress in a lab report (PDF file). Each task specifies one or more deliverables to be produced. Collect all the deliverables in your lab report. Give the lab report a structure that mimics the structure of this document.
HEIG-VD is paying for your use of Amazon Cloud. Please use the service responsibly:
- Launch virtual machines and other resources only when you are ready to work with them.
- Shut down virtual machines when not in use, for example when you finish working for the day.
- Once you are done with your work free all resources, except when indicated otherwise.
You will work together with the other students in the same AWS account, and you will see the cloud resources created by other students. To avoid chaos it is therefore important that everybody follows the same convention for naming the resources. This includes public/private key pairs, security groups, EC2 Instances, load balancers, etc.
The naming convention is described at each stage of the laboratory.
Sample :
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | SUB-PRIVATE-DEVOPSTEAM |
| Vpc-id | vpc-03d46c285a2af77ba |
| IPv4 CIDR block | 10.0.[XX].0/28 |
| Availability Zone | eu-west-3a |
By selecting a region an AWS user can control where in the world his virtual machines or other cloud resources are located, for example in a particular country or close to the majority of users.
To simplify the administration of your account we impose a limitation in that you can only create resources in one region, Europe Paris (eu-west-3).
You can see the regions when you click on the drop-down menu in the upper right corner. Make sure that you always have Europe (Paris) selected.
If you select another region and create a resource, you will get the error "You are not authorized to perform this operation".