How to connect to the CycleCloud Portal through Bastion

You can deploy an Azure Bastion to establish an SSH tunnel to your Azure CycleCloud virtual machine when the HTTPS route is unavailable in your local environment. For detailed instructions, see Connect to a VM - tunnel command.

Step 1 – Retrieve the resource ID of the CycleCloud VM

To retrieve the resource ID of the ccw-cyclecloud-vm virtual machine, go to the Azure portal. From the virtual machine view, select Settings, then Properties, and you find the ResourceID.

Step 2 – Create a connect script

Create a bash script using the following template. Paste the CycleCloud resourceID that you got earlier.

#!/bin/bash

resourceId=<vm_resource_id>
resourceGroup=$(echo $resourceId | cut -d'/' -f5)

az network bastion tunnel --name bastion --resource-group $resourceGroup --target-resource-id $resourceId --resource-port 443 --port 8443

Step 3 - Create the tunnel

Run the script you created or updated to start the SSH tunnel.

Step 4 - Connect to CycleCloud

Go to https://localhost:8443 and connect to CycleCloud.