Installing Flare on Amazon EC2

BenONeill — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:02:42 GMT

Whilst I wait on the final parts delivery for our SDN server, I went ahead and installed the SDN Flare and Mininet components on an Amazon EC2 instance. To do so:

The SDN Flare deployment recommends a M1.xlarge Ubuntu 12.04, for which Amazon will charge an hourly rate.

Go to AWS Console
Switch to your preferred region, you can do so by pull down the region menu on the upper-right corner. The default is N. Virginia.
Click on "Launch an instance", then choose "Classic Wizard"
On the "Quick Start" tab, search for "Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Server"
Before clicking "Select", ensure that 64-bit is selected
On the next page, change the “Instance Type” to “M1.xlarge” and click “Continue”
Then keep clicking "Continue" on the next few page, until the page ask you to select your key pairs.
Choose the key pair you would like to login to your EC2 instance, then click on "Continue".
At the final page, you can find an "Launch" button. Click it and you are done!
Go to "Security Groups", select "quick start", then click on "Inbound" tab.
Select "Custom TCP Rule" from "Create a new rule" drop down.
Enter “8443” in the “Port Range” field
Click "Add Rule" then "Apply Rule Changes"
Then use your key pair to login to your EC2 instance.

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Installing Flare on Amazon EC2