Installing Flare on Amazon EC2

[BenONeill]

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.