Cloud Client

What is a Cloud Client?

The cloud client is a lightweight container that is preconfigured with the CLI tools for AWS, Azure, and GCP. It also provides a web service to display the cloud account credentials for the cloud account. An example of the web service can be seen below on the left.

Step 1: Add an Instruqt Cloud Client container to your track

🌐 Web UI

1. Click the track where you want to add an AWS account to. ↳ Instruqt shows the corresponding Track dashboard page.

2. In the Sandbox section, click Edit to open the Sandbox page.

3. Click + Add a host.

4. Pick the Container host type.

5. Input these values:

   Field	Value
   Hostname	cloud-client
   Image type	Choose your own
   Container image*	gcr.io/instruqt/cloud-client or gcr.io/instruqt/cloud-client:2

6. Click Show optional settings. Enter these values:

   Field	Value
   Ports	80
   Shell	/bin/bash

7. Click Save host to add the container.

*Note: gcr.io/instruqt/cloud-client:2is an updated version of this container with newer versions of the AWS CLI tools pre-installed. This is offered as a separate container version to maintain compatibility with pre-existing customer scripts or processes. cloud-client offers aws-cli version 1.36.32, while cloud-client:2 offers aws-cli version 2.22.27.

💻 Instruqt CLI

1. Open the file config.yml in your code editor.

2. Copy and paste the following code under the containers property:

- name: cloud-client
  image: gcr.io/instruqt/cloud-client
  ports: [80]
  shell: /bin/bash