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3.1 Prerequisites and SSH Instructions

Lesson 4. What are we going to do?

To successfully complete this Amazon Lightsail lab, you should be familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console and be comfortable editing scripts using a text editor. You do not need a deep knowledge of PHP, SQL, or the LAMP stack, since we will provide you with the application code; but it is useful to have a general idea.

Secure Shell (SSH)

SSH provides a secure channel over an unsecured network in a client–server architecture. For users unfamiliar with SSH, the video below will walk you through the process of setting up SSH for your web application.

This demonstration video will take you step by step through the prerequisites process for this lab.

./videos/ssh_into_lightsail.mp4