AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Setup Instance

From console:

• CentOS 7 Official AMI with HVM
• Use public-ssh security group
• Use existing key
• Encrypt all disks
• 10g root partion

Once booted, get public and private IPs:

• Add IPs to named
• ssh centos@<public-ip>
• sudo su -
• cat > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys -- add key
• Do not logout yet, verify first
• ssh root@<public-ip>
• userdel -r centos
• Logout of original session
• yum install -y lvm2
• fdisk -l -- determine local volume
• pvcreate <disk>
• vgcreate centos <disk>

Proceed with post installation instructions.

Verify ssh key fingerprint

You have to convert the ssh private key to PEM format then DER format, and finally compute md5:

ssh-keygen -e -m PEM -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa | openssl rsa -RSAPublicKey_in -outform DER | openssl md5 -c