This CentOS 8 tutorial will show you how to install CentOS 8 on VirtualBox. To begin you will see how to create a Virtual machine on VirtualBox. Next you will see how to download CentOS 8 to windows. Next you will see the CentOS 8 installation process. You will mount the CentOS 8 installation media into VirtualBox. Next you will see the CentOS 8 installation process step by step.7 Finally you will log into CentOS 8 server. This installation of CentOS 8 on VirtualBox take place on windows, in affect showing you how to run CentOS 8 on windows 10. The Install process will be the same if you are running on a physical machine.
The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2.
Step 1
Log into your AWS account.
Step 2
Click services and then EC2
Step 3
Click launch Instance
Step 4
Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI
Step 5
Select micro
Step 6
Leave the default values in instance details and click next.
Step 7
If required add more storage and click next add tags
Step 8
Click add tag, type Name in the Key field and then type a server name in the Value feed. Click Next Configure Security group
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behaviour to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. You can enable it to enhance the security on your AWS account.
First log into your AWS account, then click services and search for GuardDuty.
This blog post will show you how to set up Red hat on AWS.
A full video of the process can be seen below.
First log into your AWS account
Click Services and then ec2
Click launch instance
Search for red hat and select red hat 8
Select micro instance (it’s free tier)
Click next configure instance details
Click Next Add storage
Click next add tags
Click Add tag
In the Key field type Name and then type a name in the value field for example darren’s server
Click Next: Configure Security group
select my IP and click Review and Launch
Click launch
Select create a new keypair, give it a name and click download keypair.
To connect to our instance we will need to convert the key we downloaded, to do so we will use putty and puttygen they can be downloaded form here: https://www.putty.org/
Open puttygen and click Load
Navigate to where you downloaded your key, click all files, click on your key and click open.
Now click Save Private key, when prompted click yes you want to save without a passphrase.
Now open putty and enter your public IP into the host name or IP address field, then expand SSH on the left had side.
Click auth and then browse, navigate to where you saved your key and select it.
Amazon AWS S3 is a file storage service on Amazon Web Services. You can also host static websites on S3 quite cheaply and easily. This guide will show you how to host a static website on Amazon s3.
Step 1
You will need to create two files on your local machine – you can download them below:
You can create an Amazon Machine Image or AMI for your existing EC2 instance. The AMI will allow you to launch a fresh EC2 instance using the AMI as a template. You can also share the AMI with other AWS accounts.
Step 1
To get started, it is best practise to stop your instance before you start. So right click your instance and click stop
Step 2
When the instance has stopped, right click it again, click image and then create Image
Step 3
Give your Image a name, a description and then click create Image
Step 4
In the screen that appears click the ami ID.
Step 5
You will now see your image creation as pending.
Step 6
Once the ami is marked as available you can then launch it as an EC2 instance.
A virtual private cloud (VPC) is an on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within a public cloud environment, providing a certain level of isolation between the different organizations (denoted as users hereafter) using the resources. The isolation between one VPC user and all other users of the same cloud (other VPC users as well as other public cloud users) is achieved normally through allocation of a private IP subnet and a virtual communication construct (such as a VLAN or a set of encrypted communication channels) per user
In this tutorial we will show you how to create a VPC in AWS with a public and private subnet.
Step 1
Log into the aws console, click services and then VPC.
Step 2
Next click Elastic Ips on the left hand side
Step 3
Click to allocate new address.
Step 4
Click allocate and then close.
Step 5
Click VPC Dashboad in the upper left to go back to the VPC dashboard.
Step 6
Click launch VPC Wizard
Step 7
Click VPC with Public and Private Subnets and click select.
Step 8
Enter values relevant to you and then click create VPC
After you click create you should see the VPC creating, note, it may take several minutes for the NAT gateway to create.
You should then see a message that states the VPC is created.
This AWS tutorial will show you how to create a S3 bucket on AWS.
“Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a “simple storage service” offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. Simply, Amazon S3 provides a web interface to easily store and retrieve data safely, in any amount, at any time, from anywhere, at a low cost. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its global e-commerce network.”
Step 1
Log into you AWS account click services and then s3
Step 2
In the screen that appears click create bucket
Step 3
Give your bucket a unique name (It most be unique across all of AWS) then click Create in the lower left.
Step 4
You should now see your bucket, click it to access it.
Step 5
Click upload, to add a file.
Step 6
Click add file & navigate to a file on your machine to upload.
This tutorial will show you how to create a CentOS 7 instance on AWS. We assume that you already have you AWS account created and that you are logged in already.
Step 1
Click Services and then EC2
Step 2
Click Launch Instance
Step 3
Click AWS Marketplace
Search for CentOS
Select the top result – CentOS7
Step 4
Click Continue
Step 5
Select your machine type and click Next Configure Instance details. In our case we will select the t2.micro instance as it is free tier eligible.
Step 6
Change Auto-assign public IP to Enable and click Next: Add storage.
Step 7
Leave the defaults and click Next:Add Tags
Step 8
Click Next: Configure Security Group
Step 9
Click review and Launch.
Step 10
Review your settings and then click Launch.
Step 11
In the drop down menu select create a new key pair, give the key pair a name and Download the Key Pair, then click launch Instances.
Step 12
Click your instance ID to see the instance.
You should now see your instance.
Step 13
To connect to our instance we will need to convert the key we downloaded, to do so we will use putty and puttygen they can be downloaded form here: https://www.putty.org/
Open puttygen and click Load
Step 14
Navigate to where you downloaded your key, click all files, click on your key and click open.
Step 15
Now click Save Private key, when prompted click yes you want to save without a passphrase.
Step 16
Now open putty and enter your public IP into the host name or IP address field, then expand SSH on the left had side.
Step 17
Click auth and then browse, navigate to where you saved your key and select it.
