AWS-VPC-Setup

AWS Virtual Private Network + Load Balancer

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My Personal AWS VPC from scratch connecting subnets, creating Internet Gateway, Route Tables, Subnet Associations and ssh into the server.

Intro for project

Steps Involved:

• ✅ Create 1 VPC in AWS Console

• ✅ Create 2 subnets then attatch them to the VPC created

• ✅ Give the subnets IPv4 CIDRs

• ✅ Create internet gateway so we have internet

• ✅ Attatch internet gateway to VPC

• ✅ Go to VPC's main route table and edit the routes

• ✅ give the destination the universal IP address and target the internet Gateway and save changes

• ✅ go to subnet associations and add the 2 subnets created and save associations

• ✅ now go to the EC2 (Virtual servers in the cloud) dashboard and create an Instance (launch instance)

• ✅ name the server and choose a distrubution

• ✅ create new key pair (if one isnt already available) if so select it

• ✅ under networking settings edit and select the VPC and subnet created

• ✅ enable auto-assign public IP address

• ✅ ssh protocol should be TCP port 22

• ✅ launch instance and repeat for 2nd instance

• ✅ for windows it will be RDP instead of ssh and the port will be 3389

• ✅ go to the instance you want to run and select connect

• ✅ for the ssh client open a terminal on Apple (different for windows will document later)

• ✅ cd into the folder the key pair is in and run the commands

• ✅ run chmod 400 + name of key pair (to ensure key is not publicly visible)

• ✅ run ssh -i "key pair name" ec2-user@ + IP given

• ✅ select yes on the dialog prompt

• ✅ you should see Amazon Linux 2 AMI logo if done correctly

• ✅ run logout to close connection and get back to your shell

• ✅ for windows server select instance and go to RDP client

• ✅ select password and upload private key to decrypt

• ✅ decrypt password

• ✅ copy password

• ✅ download remote desktop file

• ✅ open download remote desktop file

• ✅ paste password to launch instance

• ✅ select yes to continue on pop up dialouge box

• ✅ you should see your instance live

• Figure how to ping from one server to another

• Write a Blog Post on Hashnode about the experience.

My version of the code found Below

https://github.com/BenjaminBurton/AWS-VPC-Setup/blob/main/README.md

Load Balancer / Jump Server Setup

• ✅ create load balancer using classic load balancer
• ✅ name load balancer
• ✅ attatch VPC inside create LB inside dropdown
• ✅ add the subnets by selecting the plus icons next to them under available subnets Actions
• ✅ next assign security groups
• ✅ create a new security group (type http)
• ✅ next configure security settings
• ✅ next configure health check (ignore warning on page)
• ✅ next add EC2 instance
• ✅ select both instances created
• ✅ next add tags
• ✅ review and create
• ✅ create

Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

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Blog Post

• ❌ Write about experience in Blog post on HashNode

Issues Encountered

• ❌ Actively Finding resolution to Issue with pinging back and forth

• ❌ Under Construction