BTF AMI Instructions

Setting up the EC2 instance from AMI

1. Open the AMI section of the EC2 images page and make sure it points to the Ohio region (https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-2#Images:visibility=private-images;sort=name)

2. Under private images, please select the Nucleaus AMI image (alpine-3.11.6-x86_64-nucleaus-btf-dfd060b), creation date: May 8, 2020.

3. Launch it as a t2.large instance so that it has at least 8 GB of RAM, and configure the storage to be 40 GB SSD.

4. Wait for it to initialize.

Obtaining the Nucleaus BTF Appliance ID

1. The BTF appliance ID is shown on the initial SSH login screen. For security purposes, the only way to access the login screen is through an actual SSH connection only. For this, you will need to generate and download a .pem key associated with your AWS account, assigned to the EC2 instance.

2. Open Terminal, and open an SSH connection to your EC2 instance, like so:

3. You will not be able to actually log into your instance, as the image is locked down, but the BTF Appliance ID will be displayed.

Adding your BTF Appliance into the Nucleaus Console

1. Under the top right drop down menu with your name on it, click to expand, and click on Appliances.

2. Click the Create Appliance button and enter the Appliance ID from the SSH session and a descriptor in the dialog

3. Give it a minute for the appliance to start sending “alive” signals to the console

4. Edit or create any repo, and under BTF Options, select the newly added appliance in the dropdown, and click Save.

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