Troubleshooting basic network connectivity issues is an important skill. This troubleshooting scenario is an opportunity to assess your skills in this area. In this lab scenario, a junior administrator has deployed a VPC and instances, but there are a few things wrong. `Instance3` is not able to connect to the internet and the junior admin can’t determine why. Being a senior administrator, it’s your responsibility to troubleshoot the issue and ensure the instance has connectivity to the internet, so that you can ping and log in to the instance using SSH.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Determine Why the Instance Cannot Connect to the Internet
- Troubleshoot connectivity for
Instance3
and resolve the issue. You can use ping tests from either your local PC or you can ssh into Instance 1 to do the ping tests for the lab.
- Troubleshoot connectivity for
- Identify the Issues Preventing the Instance from Connecting to the Internet
- Identify and fix the issues that are preventing the instance from connecting to the Internet.
Once they’re resolved, connect to the instance using SSH to verify connectivity. Use the
cloud_user
username and the password identified on the lab credentials page to login:ssh cloud_user@<PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS>