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Part 1: End-to-end deployment of a sample web application on a secure VPC topology

In part 1, you provision a secure VPC-based topology that is aligned with the VSI on VPC landing zone deployable architecture, as shown in the following diagram.

After you provision the VPC, you customize the deployed infrastructure in the following ways:

• Expose one of the VSI in the management VPC to act as a "jump box" for operator access. This jump box is the entry point for operators to access the VSIs in the workload VPC.
• Deploy an Apache server in a VSI in the workload VPC.
• Expose the web pages that are served by the Apache server to the internet through a public load balancer.

Lab Prerequisites ✅

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Make sure that you meet the following prerequisites before you begin the lab.

• IBM Cloud

  • An IBM Cloud Pay-Go or Subscription account

    ℹ️ Note: Participants in the TechXchange classroom will be provided with credentials to access an IBM Cloud account during the lab.

  • An IBMid

  • API key with the following permissions

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• A development computer with the following software.

  • Terraform

  • Text editor of your choice

  • Web browser

  • Tools to generate SSH key

    • Linux and Mac come with ssh-keygen.
    • Windows users can use PuTTYgen

    For more information, see Generating an external SSH key.

  • Optional: IBM Cloud CLI

ℹ️ Note: Participants in the TechXchange classroom will be provided with a development VM with the prerequisite software installed.