VPC creation, launching instance inside VPC using EC2 portal and Bootstrap EC2 instance using VPC opitons

• Launching instance inside VPC using portal

Follow following link to

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/getting-started-create-vpc.html

1) Create VPC

2) Create security group for VPC

3) Launch instance inside VPC

4) Assigning an Elastic IP Address to your instance

• Creating vm and bootstraping node which is created under VPC follow following steps

1) Create VPC as per instruction given in Step I of http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/getting-started-create-vpc.html

2) Crete Security group for VPC in Step 2 i.e. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/GettingStartedGuide/getting-started-create-security-group.html

Note: Make sure you are creating security group inside VPC

3) Run knife ec2 server create command using appropriate options.

Following is the command used by us

knife ec2 server create -I ami-d05e75b8 -N <node name> --subnet <vpc subnet-id> -g <security group id inside vpc> --identity-file <somekey.pem> --ssh-user ubuntu --associate-public-ip -c <path to knife.rb> --bootstrap-protocol ssh --flavor <AMI flavor> --server-connect-attribute 'public_ip_address' -VV