- Login to Nephelae. The first time you will see the following security warning. You have to download the certification.
- Click I Understand the Risks, Add Exception... and Confirm Security Exception
- Now login with your username and password
- Obtain Credentials
Once you have logged in, you will see the 'Download Credentials' button under the 'Credentials' tab. Download and store your credentials e.g. mycreds.zip
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Unzip the keys using the following command and protect them from exposure. The zip-file contains two files with the .pem extension; these are your public and private keys.
user@client1:~$ unzip mycreds.zip -d ~/.euca
user@client1:~$ chmod 0700 ~/.euca
user@client1:~$ chmod 0600 ~/.euca/*
- Finally, ensure that the environment variables necessary for euca2tools to work are set by sourcing the eucarc file:
user@client1:~$ . ~/.euca/eucarc
or you may want to do it automatically on login:
user@client1:~$ echo "source ~/.euca/eucarc" >> ~/.bashrc
- Install euca2ools
- Test that everything is ok till now.
user@client1:~$ euca-describe-availability-zones
should give you an output similar to:
AVAILABILITYZONE NephelaeCC1 NephelaeCC
user@client1:~$
if you don't see something like the above you should stop and check the above steps. Something is wrong.
- Now you will have to create your private key that will be used for passwordless ssh to your virtual machine.
user@client1:~$ euca-add-keypair mykey | tee mykey.private
user@client1:~$ chmod 0600 mykey.private
mykey is the name of your keypair and mykey.private is the name of the file where your private key is stored
- Following steps
Running a virtual machine
or building your own virtual machine
