Customizing the Cluster Manager or Cluster Node Images

If you want to install additional software on the Cluster Manager or node images, you can create your own custom images based on the default images provided by Aspera. To do that, you need to start the default images in a special mode that prevents running the firstboot scripts, perform your customizations, and finally create a new image.

When booting up your image, disable the firstboot script by including "firstboot=disabled" in the Advanced Detail section.
Finish booting the instance. For more information, see Launching the Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager.

SSH to the instance.

# ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa -p 22 centos@IP_ADDRESS

Make your modifications to the instance such as installing additional software.
Create a new image from the modified instance and use that for your cluster manager or cluster node instances.

For more information about modifying your instance images, see https://support.asperasoft.com/entries/98041027-Cluster-manager-with-RDS-Autoscale-and-Elastic-IP.