AWS

• Select EC2 as the service from the AWS Console
• Click "Launch Instance"
• Enter a name for your instance, e.g., "FreeTAK-AWS-001".
• Under the Application and OS Images menu, select Ubuntu, then from the dropdown select Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (HVM) SSD Volume Type

• Under instance type, select the instance type appropriate for your deployment size. For testing servers a t2.micro is sufficient.
• Under Key Pair, select a key pair in your account. If you do not have one, create one.
• Under Network Settings, select a security group that has the necessary ports configured inbound for both SSH and FreeTAK server operations.

FTS Ports (FTSConfig.yaml)

• 8087 - TCP CoT (FTS_COT_PORT)
• 8089 - SSL CoT (FTS_SSLCOT_PORT)
• 19023 - API (FTS_API_PORT)

FTS UI Ports (config.py)

• 5000 - Web UI (APPPort)
• 1880 - Webmap (WEBMAPPORT)

MediaMTX - Video Server

• 9997 - REST API
• 9998 - Metrics Listener

• Under storage configuration, for testing an 8GiB GP2 volume will be sufficient.
• Once complete, select launch instance.
• Once ready to connect to the instance, use powershell / ssh client

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y 
  

• now

sudo reboot

• reconnect via ssh

  ip a 
  

• confirm ethernet adapter name (i.e. ens33)

  grab $[publicip] from your instance details page 
  

• add the Public IP to ethernet adapter by using the following command

  sudo ip addr add $publicip dev $ethernetadapter
  

• run zero touch installer

  wget -qO - bit.ly/ftszerotouch | sudo bash
  

Troubleshooting

If anything fails, check IP values in the following files:

config.py

ZTI installs this file in /root/fts.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/FreeTAKServer-UI/config.py

• APPIP: Internal IP
• IP: Public IP
• WEBMAPIP: Public IP

FTSConfig.yaml

• FTS_DP_ADDRESS: Public IP
• FTS_USER_ADDRESS: Public IP
• FTS_API_ADDRESS: 0.0.0.0