Deploy, Configure and Experience Aviatrix CoPilot
Getting the Aviatrix CoPilot License
Even before you deploy CoPilot notice that CoPilot is only available with BYOL. You must send an email info@aviatrix.com and request a license. You must provide and mention in your email request
1- Full Name
2- Corporate email address (CoPilot license email requested from Yahoo/Gmail/etc. email addresses will be ignored
3- Mention that you are requesting the license for Sandbox Starter Tool or for testing/poc/lab purposes
What is Sandbox Starter?
You can find more information about this tool on this video here
Deploy Aviatrix Controller in AWS
- Deploy Aviatrix CoPilot from the AWS market place
- https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
- As the best practice, it should be deployed in the same region as Aviatrix Controller.
- In our example, we are deploying it in the us-east-1 (Virginia) region.
- Search Aviatrix CoPilot on AWS Marketplace and click on it and then subscribe
At this stage, we are ready to configure it
Select the default options
Click Continue to launch
Select Launch through EC2
Select the default EC2 size for CoPilot and then click on Configure Instance Details
In the following screen make sure to select the VPC where Controller was deployed and also enable Auto-Assign public IP to CoPilot
The following screen shows the default options. No change needed here
The following screen shows the default options. No change needed here
Step4 is about storage settings. No changes needed here. Simply click next
In step 5 provide a name tag for the CoPilot EC2 and then move on to the security group settings step.
Now create a new security group for CoPilot
Use the following setting for lab purposes. This can further be tightened. Check the product documentation at https://docs.aviatrix.com for further details.
Now you can launch the CoPilot
Aviatrix Controller Setting
Before logging into the CoPilot, one must setup Controller first.
Log into CoPilot and Execute Use-Cases
Now you can log into CoPilot using the read-only user called CoPilot
After logging in, refer to the following video to get to know more about CoPilot and test important use-cases.
