Building a Simple Network on AWS

This is a warmup exercise for module 02 which can be found here. https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-modern-application-workshop/tree/python/module-2

It requires you to know the basics of AWS networking.

Your Assignment

1. Create a VPC
2. Create a Public Subnet with an Internet Gateway attached
3. Create a Private Subnet with an NAT gateway attached
4. Spin up a server in the public subnet that outputs "Hello World"
5. Visit the server using the IP/DNS to see "Hello World" message
6. Spin up another server in the Private subnet
7. SSH into it using SSH port forwarding
8. Run "yum update -y" and download updates in the server

Deliveries

1. Public IP of the Web Server
2. Screenshot of the "Hello World" message with the public ip on the address bar
3. Private IP of the Web Server

Cleanup - Do this to avoid unwanted bills from AWS

1. Stop the EC2 instances
2. Delete the NatGateway
3. Delete the Internet Gateway
4. Release Elastic IP associated with the Internet Gateway

References

1. AWS VPC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdkulaBWyXw
2. Security Groups and NACL in VPC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pac2SZfSfzk
3. Creating a VPC - https://youtu.be/iZonf_XhMpY
4. Security Groups and Launching Instances - https://youtu.be/85COkRLRw98
5. SSH Agent Forwarding - https://youtu.be/cHg6LWOzH98
6. NAT Gateways vs NAT Instaces -https://youtu.be/un4vD6WCEJM

Create an Issue with the Deliveries. Deadline - 9th April 2019