Alibaba Cloud – Set up an Airwall Gateway

Once you've set up the Conductor to create Airwall Gateways on Alibaba Cloud, it's easy to create additional Airwall Gateways.

Prerequisites

Required licenses: An Airwall 300v license for each virtual Airwall Gateway you are setting up.
Supported versions: Conductor v2.2.8 and later

To deploy a cloud Airwall Gateway on Alibaba Cloud, you need the following:

An Alibaba Cloud account, and your access and secret keys.
The address and port of your Conductor.
One or more Airwall Gateway image files (from the Alibaba Cloud marketplace, or from Tempered Fulfillment uploaded to the Alibaba Cloud console).

Deploy an Airwall Gateway on Alibaba Cloud

Here’s how to deploy an Airwall Gateway to your Alibaba Cloud account:

Step 2: Create an Airwall Gateway template on Alibaba Cloud

In the Conductor, select the gear icon in the upper-right to access the Settings page, and go to the Cloud providers tab.
In the Configured Cloud Providers list, under Alibaba Cloud, select the + next to Airwall templates.
Give your template a descriptive name, and then select the Image and network options you want for Airwall Gateways created with this template.

Note: To select subnets, you need to select a Network (VPC) first.
Select Save

Step 3: Deploy Airwall Gateways on Alibaba Cloud

You must Set up Alibaba Cloud as a cloud provider before you can add an Airwall Gateway in the Conductor

On the Airwalls page, (or in Conductor Settings, under Cloud providers), click Create cloud Airwall, and select Alibaba Cloud Airwall.
In v2.2.8 and later, select the type of Airwall to create, and select Next.
In v2.2.8 and later, if you want to use a template to create the Airwall Gateway, select the template, select Next, and then give the Airwall Gateway a descriptive name. You can then skip to the next step.
To continue without a template and enter the information manually, just select Next.
1. If you are filling in information manually, or want to change the template, fill in the Name and Image and network options for this Airwall Gateway. For Machine type, the default typically works. You can select a different size if needed for your purposes.
2. Under Airwall gateway image ID, pick the Airwall Gateway image you want to use. The list shows the Airwall Gateway images available on your cloud provider.
3. If you don't have a pre-configured virtual network, you need to create a new network. Click Create new network and fill in the form:
  - Network CIDR – Enter an available network address and subnet mask in CIDR notation.
  - Public subnet CIDR – Must be a subnet of the main network. Traffic flows between the underlay interface of the Airwall Gateway and the Public IP address object in Azure.
  - Protected subnet CIDR – Must be a subnet of the main network. Traffic must pass through theAirwall Gateway or through manually-crafted routes.
  When you’re finished entering the information, click Create network, and when processing is complete, click Back.
4. Back on the Create cloud Airwall page, select the network and public and protected subnets you just created.
Click Next.
Check the summary. If everything is correct, click Create cloud Airwall.
Click Finish. It may take up to 5 minutes for Alibaba Cloud to create the Airwall Gateway.

You’ve completed creating an Airwall Gateway on Alibaba Cloud, and now need to provision, License, and configure it. For help, see Provision and License Airwall Edge Services and Configure Airwall Edge Service Settings.

Step 4: (Optional) Change your Elastic IP Bandwidth Setting

The Airwall Gateway images on Alibaba Cloud use the following default values for elastic IP:

Bandwidth: 5 Mbps
InternetChargeType: PayByTraffic
InstanceChargeType: Postpaid (Pay-As-You-Go)

You can change the bandwidth value once the Airwall Gateway is deployed, however be aware that the bandwidth rate may increase when you edit this value. For more information on how to change the bandwidth, see Alibaba help.