{"id":39584,"date":"2025-07-29T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/?p=39584"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:52","slug":"try-yak-for-free-with-yak-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/try-yak-for-free-with-yak-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Try YaK for free with YaK Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>dbi services makes free demo environments available to all, so that you can play with the <a href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/\">YaK<\/a> and deploy instances and components to Azure and AWS. The <a href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/demo\">YaK Demo<\/a> environment is hosted on one of dbi services AWS tenants and is automatically destroyed <strong>after 4 hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-plain\"><em>The demo environment is not supposed to be used for production purpose (it\u2019s just a demo and everything is scrubbed after 4 hours)<\/em><br><em>dbi services shall not be held liable for any data loss on this demo environmen<\/em>t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wanna-give-it-a-try\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#wanna-give-it-a-try\"><\/a>Wanna give it a try?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To do so, simply connect to <a href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/demo\/\">https:\/\/yak4all.io\/demo\/<\/a>, fill in the form and you will receive a confirmation email from <strong>no-reply@dbi-services.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please allow 5 to 10 minutes for the environment to be provisioned and the YaK to spin up. Once up and running you&#8217;ll receive a second email from <strong>no-reply@demo.yak4all.io<\/strong> with the URL and credentials to connect to your YaK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check your inbox and junk mail to make sure you don&#8217;t miss out on your YaK experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"limitations\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#limitations\"><\/a>Limitations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The demo environment we provision comes with the following restrictions (this will not be the case with a regular installation of YaK):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AWS infrastructure:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Available shapes<\/strong>: t3.micro, t3.small, t3.medium<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Available disk types:<\/strong> gp2, gp3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Disk sizes:<\/strong> max 50gb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Available component:<\/strong> PostgreSQL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AWS Region:<\/strong> eu-west-1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Azure infrastructure:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Available shapes<\/strong>: Standard_B2s, Standard_B2ms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Available disk types:<\/strong> Standard_LRS, StandardSSD_LRS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Disk sizes:<\/strong> max 64gb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Available component:<\/strong> PostgreSQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"yak-login-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#yak-login-page\"><\/a>YaK Login Page<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the link received and log into the YaK with the credentials from the email.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/~gitbook\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2F2436296891-files.gitbook.io%2F%7E%2Ffiles%2Fv0%2Fb%2Fgitbook-x-prod.appspot.com%2Fo%2Fspaces%252FMGFsptWcTlGb6Djq7qsZ%252Fuploads%252Fgit-blob-b9dc83c9accd5b35765d2050064ef9091960a0dc%252FYaK_login_page.png%3Falt%3Dmedia&amp;width=768&amp;dpr=4&amp;quality=100&amp;sign=3eab5c65&amp;sv=2\" alt=\"YaK Login page\" style=\"width:548px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"where-to-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#where-to-start\"><\/a>Where to start?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alright, you&#8217;re all set, your environment is ready. Let&#8217;s give it a try!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have pre-provisioned the YaK with a few things for you so that you can almost immediately deploy your servers and components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 infrastructures have been pre-provisioned:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An AWS demo infrastructure:<strong> &#8220;aws-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Microsoft Azure demo infrastructure: <strong>&#8220;azure-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cloud providers secrets have been attached to these infrastructures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A PostgreSQL component type is available to you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-you-need-to-do-now\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#what-you-need-to-do-now\"><\/a>What you need to do now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, we&#8217;ve thought of a scenario, but feel free to explore the YaK on your own if you prefer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our use case here is to deploy a server to AWS or to Azure and then deploy a PostgreSQL database instance on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-1.-declare-a-ssh-key\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-1.-declare-a-ssh-key\"><\/a>1. Declare a SSH key<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to connect securely to the Linux servers once created, a pair of SSH keys must be generated and the <strong>private key<\/strong> must be transferred to the servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Generate your SSH key:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>SSH keys can be generated from any Linux-based machine running openSSH with the &#8220;ssh-keygen&#8221; command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ ssh-keygen -b 4096 -m PEM -t rsa -f my-ssh-key -q -N \"\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows users can generate SSH keys using the PuTTYgen utility (<a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/appendix\/create-ssh-keys-with-puttygen\">follow this link<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Copy the content of the <strong>private key<\/strong> file:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$ cat my-ssh-key\n##This is just an example, generate your own private key\n\n-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----\nb3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAACmFlczI1Ni1jdHIAAAAGYmNyeXB0AAAAGAAAABASDILVb1\nMiZ78g848c6Dk6KYwkJZXloSIruLe+Sid0Xd+Lb1rAxbwzAhXWRMzzBT5k3WciXk2fMhUD\np4YSahpYvquZK950aXiZNDOJpKZP8wjf4g4nQyiJZ\/0G0J9mIaI2h\/fr8TA67KHYtu\/Eyf\nPN9bKJwII3aiGlu5\/Viq2cgYT8jJ01AK8cY3tSqKdlrN2GyxllBFl42QplbxA2USPJ1E6v\nVIjtbmJjdz&#091;...........................................]qAc4HxP02t\/N2ZN\nq+dDNWeShfVz4zjApPQCzdiGqLAlzUy67KNxQgljhaOEaYTQgrLE8XNGsIFNZwGvsEo\/xZ\nXnN2p\n-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Feed the YaK with the SSH key:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the menu, navigate to <strong>Configuration<\/strong> -&gt; S<strong>ecrets<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Declare<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give a name to your secret (my-ssh-key)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select &#8220;<strong>ssh key<\/strong>&#8221; as secret type<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paste the entirety of the <strong>private key<\/strong> previously copied, into the corresponding field of the form<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Save<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-2.-attach-your-ssh-secret\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-2.-attach-your-ssh-secret\"><\/a>2. Attach your SSH key to the infrastructure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the menu, navigate to &#8220;<strong>Infrastructures<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the infrastructure you would like to deploy to in the list (<strong>&#8220;aws-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;azure-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the &#8220;<strong>Action<\/strong>&#8221; button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Attach secret<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the SSH secret created in the previous step from the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Attach<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-3.-declare-a-server\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-3.-declare-a-server\"><\/a>3. Declare a server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to the &#8220;<strong>Servers<\/strong>&#8221; menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Declare<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give it a name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>Infrastructure <\/strong>to deploy your server to (<strong>&#8220;aws-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;azure-demo-1&#8221;<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select an <strong>Image<\/strong> to install : let&#8217;s take Debian 12 for example<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select a server <strong>Shape<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add custom tags as per your need (optional)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Network section:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mode: <strong>automatic<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IP: <strong>leave blank<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scope: <strong>public<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tick the &#8220;Admin access&#8221; checkbox: this defines the IP address used to connect to the server for configuration purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In Azure, VM names must be unique. Since we&#8217;re all sharing the same demo environment, avoid instance names that are too obvious and could conflict with other users&#8217; machines, such as \u201csrv01\u201d, \u2018server1\u2019, \u201cmyserver\u201d, etc. Be creative to avoid potential conflicts with other users <\/em>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-4.-deploy-server\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-4.-deploy-server\"><\/a>4. Deploy your server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select your server in the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Deploy<\/strong>&#8221; from the &#8220;<strong>Actions<\/strong>&#8221; menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm &#8220;<strong>Deploy<\/strong>&#8221; in the pop up box\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Follow the deployment steps from the Jobs menu to see what the YaK is doing behind the scene. If you&#8217;ve followed the steps it should succeed (if not you must have missed something \ud83d\ude04)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wait until the job status is <strong>&#8220;Successful&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your server should be started automatically and will soon be in a <strong>&#8220;running&#8221;<\/strong> state\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You should already be able to connect to it via SSH by selecting the server and retrieving the <strong>public IP<\/strong> from the server parameters. (see step &#8220;7. Connect to your server&#8221;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But hold your horses! Let&#8217;s deploy a component on it! (if you can&#8217;t wait, skip the component deployment and come back to it later, that&#8217;s OK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-5.-declare-component\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-5.-declare-component\"><\/a>5. Declare your component<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to the &#8220;<strong>Components<\/strong>&#8221; menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Declare<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give it a name (ex: PG01)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select your component type (postgresql_instance)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select your subcomponent type (standalone)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HA requires 3 servers be deployed, in this example we will consider a <strong>standalone<\/strong> setup as we have declared 1 server only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose your Provider (here it will be <strong>aws <\/strong>or<strong> azure<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>PostgreSQL host<\/strong> where you want to deploy your database instance (the server created previously)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fill in the <strong>&#8220;Instance name&#8221;<\/strong> field (ex: mypgdb)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>&#8220;Storage&#8221;<\/strong> tab and fill in the required fields.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set <strong>Max size of component disks<\/strong> for the 3 file systems:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\/u01 -&gt; <strong>40GB<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\/u02 -&gt; <strong>20GB<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\/u90 -&gt; <strong>20GB<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Save<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"id-6.-deploy-component\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbi-services.gitbook.io\/yak-user-doc\/yak-demo#id-6.-deploy-component\"><\/a>6. Deploy your component<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Your PostgreSQL database instance is configured, now let&#8217;s deploy it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select the component you&#8217;ve just configured from the list<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click &#8220;<strong>Actions<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then click <strong>&#8220;Deploy a new PostgreSQL Standalone instance&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confirm your choice in the pop-up menu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seat back, relax, follow the deployment steps from the <strong>jobs<\/strong> menu and wait until your component is successfully installed and configured.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-7-connect-to-your-server-and-play-around\">7. Connect to your server and play around<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open a SSH connection to the <strong>public IP address<\/strong> of your server:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>DEMOUSER@demo$ ssh -i my-ssh-key &lt;user&gt;@&lt;PUBLIC_IP&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your <code>PUBLIC_IP<\/code> address can be retrieved from <strong>Servers<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Parameters<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Azure<\/strong> default user is <code>azureuser<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AWS<\/strong> default users (see <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/managing-users.html\">AWS doc<\/a> for more details):\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The default user for debian based AMI is &#8220;<code>admin<\/code>&#8220;, but this could be something else, based on the AMI you selected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For an Amazon Linux AMI, the username is <code>ec2-user<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For a CentOS AMI, the username is <code>centos<\/code> or <code>ec2-user<\/code>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For a Debian AMI, the username is <code>admin<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For a Fedora AMI, the username is <code>fedora<\/code> or <code>ec2-user<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For a RHEL AMI, the username is <code>ec2-user<\/code> or <code>root<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For a SUSE AMI, the username is <code>ec2-user<\/code> or <code>root<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For an Ubuntu AMI, the username is <code>ubuntu<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For an Oracle AMI, the username is <code>ec2-user<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For a Bitnami AMI, the username is <code>bitnami<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Play with your PostgreSQL database instance!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>admin@my-server1:~$ sudo su - postgres\n\n\n PostgreSQL Clusters up and running on this host:\n ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n    mypgdb      -&gt;  \/u02\/pgdata\/17\/mypgdb                                    -&gt;  5432  ==&gt; OPEN\n\n PostgreSQL Clusters NOT running on this host:\n ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n16:39:13 postgres@my-server1:\/home\/postgres\/ &#091;pg17.2] psql -p 5432\npsql (17.2 dbi services build)\nType \"help\" for help.\n\npostgres=#<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading this blog, for more info about the YaK, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/\">yak4all.io<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/install-a-single-node-kubernetes-cluster-with-suse-rke2-and-deploy-your-own-yak-instance\/\">other blog<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to install your own RKE2 Kubernetes cluster and your own YaK at home!<br><br>Happy YaKing \ud83d\ude09 !<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/contact\/\">Contact the YaK team<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/yak4all.io\/\">Visit yak4all.io<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dbi services makes free demo environments available to all, so that you can play with the YaK and deploy instances and components to Azure and AWS. 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