WI: How to connect to a mac in EC2

To connect to the virtual machine on EC2, please follow this steps:

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1. REQUIREMENTS ✨

• You must have the access to the AWS Console of Bpartners

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2. STEPS ✨

Start the Mac instance and get connection instruction

• Connect to the AWS Console
• Change the region to eu-west-1
• Navigate through EC2
• Click on instance
• Select the instance
• Click on instance state
• Start instance
• Go back to the instance and click on it
• Click on connect
• Click on ssh client and copy the ssh link

If you still haven't downloaded the keypair yet do the following, otherwise skip these 3 steps

• Navigate through the S3 and download the keypair stored in infra-bpartners bucket
• Put the keypair in your working directory, make sure you are inside the directory before running the command below
• run this command to change the permission of the keypair file:

   chmod 400 'keypair_file.pem'

Connect to the Mac instance

• Create ssh tunnel to the VNC port using the url you copied before:

Add this option to the link

   -L 5900:localhost:5900 

The link should look like this

ssh -i "eu-west-1-ec2-mac1-keypair.pem" -L 5900:localhost:5900 ec2-user@ec2-3-248-183-27.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

• Use VNC Client to connect to localhost

  • If you are a linux user, you can download remmina
  • If you are a window user, you can use RealVNC
  • If you are mac user, macOS has a built-in VNC client.

• When you get inside the client, click on new connection profile then choose VNC as protocol

• The GUI launches. Connect to the remote session of the Mac instance using:

    * the password stored in ssm parameter: '/bpartners/macVirtual/password'
    * the username stored in ssm parameter: '/bpartners/macVirtual/username'
  

Note: If Ireland is saturated, connect to Virginia, the steps remain the same. Just change the region to us-east-1

DON'T FORGET TO STOP THE INSTANCE AFTER USE

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