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ESH Customer Cloud Installation

ESH is packaged as a Service Catalog Portfolio. ESH can be installed into any AWS account you require. From that account it can reach out to your other cloud providers to manage resources within them.

In order to install ESH, contact our sales team at sales@cloudtechnologyoffice.com. They will share the ESH AWS Service Catalog Portfolio with an AWS account of your choosing.

Step 1

Go to the AWS Service Catalog console.

Service Catalog Portfolio List

Step 2

Click Import Portfolio

Import Service Catalog Portfolio

Enter the portfolio ID that you have been emailed as above. Click Import and the product will be loaded to your account.

Installation Steps

Service Catalogue provides an easy way to deploy ESH. Other than creation of a DNS entry and an SSL certificate, the entire process is automated and you should be setup and ready to start using ESH in under 30 minutes.

When you have the ESH product in Service Catalogue, follow the steps below:

Create an ACM Certificate

The installation will automatically be setup a DNS entry in Route 53 for the domain name you specify. The only pre-task you need to do is to create an ACM certificate. Retrieve the ARN of the certificate before moving onto the next stage.

The following example creates a public certificate, if you require a private certificate, create a private certificate authority before proceeding.

  • Step 1 Create Certificate - Step 1

  • Step 2

    Select DNS validation and the installation will handle adding the appropriate DNS records.

    Create Certificate - Step 2

  • Step 3

    Click Request, then wait for the certificate to be provisioned and copy its ARN.

Run Service Catalog ESH Product

There will be 2 products shared with your account, one installed ESH and the other makes it easy to deploy a role ESH can assume in any AWS account you wish to define as an ESH Target.

  • Step 1 - Select the ESH product and click Launch Product

    Install Service Catalog Product - Step 1

  • Step 2 - Fill in the form fields and click Launch product

    Install Service Catalog Product - Step 2

  • Step 3 - Wait for installation to complete

When the installation completes you will be able to navigate to the domain you entered on the form and you will see the ESH console landing page. In order to login you first need to reset your password. You will received an email at the address you specified on the installation form.

  • Step 4 - Login to the ESH console

You will be presented with a mandatory setup wizard. Complete the steps as outlined here and you set ready to start rolling out ESH!