1. Overview

Twistlock provides prebuilt images in the Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces. These images come with Twistlock pre-installed, and are designed to simplify the deployment process.

Marketplace images use a bring your own license model. The images are available for free, besides the costs required to run them. When you launch a marketplace image, you must activate Twistlock with an access token linked to your license. If you do not have an access token, request access.

After entering your access token, Twistlock Onebox is installed. Extend Twistlock to secure the rest of your environment by deploying Defenders to your ECS, EKS, GKE, AKS, and other resources.

2. Launching a Twistlock marketplace image

This procedure shows you how launch Twistlock’s marketplace images.

Prerequisites

Although the exact details vary between cloud providers, the important points are:

  • Your instance should meet the minimum requirements described in System requirements. It should have a minimum of 4 CPUs, 2GB RAM, and 100GB storage.

  • Security groups should be configured to allow incoming TCP traffic on ports 22 (for SSH) and 8083 (for HTTPS access to Twistlock Console).

  • You have a Twistlock license. Licenses are typically delivered by email, and contain both an access token and license file. Both are required to activate Twistlock. If you do not have a license, request one here.

  • Associate your SSH credentials to the instance that will be created. You will access the VM using these credentials to complete the Twistlock installation.

Procedure

  1. After your instance is running, SSH to it.

  2. Enter your access token at the prompt to complete the installation.

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    The installation process may take several minutes as the installer updates the installed packages, retrieves the latest Twistlock release, and installs it.

  3. After the installation process completes, open Twistlock Console in a browser window. Twistlock Console is served on port 8083.

  4. Enter the credentials for your first administrative account.

  5. Enter the full product license, located at the bottom of your Twistlock license key and install link email.

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Install logs for marketplace images can be found in ~/twistlock-install/twistlock-install.log.