On 12. Feb. 2021 I got my first Raspberry Pi.
My goal is to install ELK and get rid of the AWS servers, which costs 24 USD each month.

# The Hardware
My Raspberry Pi costed 85 Euro (once). It is the biggest I could get, you can get a Raspberry for 35 USD as well.
I need this big one, because of ELK.
It has 8 GB RAM and a 128 GB Micro SD card (15 USD extra).
I bought it at Conrad:
https://www.conrad.de/de/p/raspberry-pi-4-b-8-gb-4-x-1-5-ghz-raspberry-pi-2250399.html

![grafik.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/achimmertens/tRzAXFVo-grafik.png)

Here is the data paper:
https://asset.conrad.com/media10/add/160267/c1/-/en/002138865DS01/datenblatt-2250399-raspberry-pi-4-b-8-gb-4-x-15-ghz-raspberry-pi.pdf

# Creating an Image
The installation of the Raspberry Pi is very good documentated here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

The Raspberry Pi Image creater can be downloaded here:
RaspberryPi Imager: https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/ https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/imager/imager_1.5.exe


![grafik.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/achimmertens/w8Oijtap-grafik.png)


# My first login via ssh and VNC:
> C:\Users\User>ssh pi@192.168.2.121
pi@192.168.2.121's password: raspberry (default)
Linux raspberrypi 5.10.11-v7l+ #1399 SMP Thu Jan 28 12:09:48 GMT 2021 armv7l
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Mon Feb 15 09:26:13 2021
pi@raspberrypi:~ $


I needed to add the vnc Server into the main menu, by clicking on Einstellungen/Main Menu Editor.
After that I could change the VNC Server options to "Verschlüsselung - Vorzugsweise aktiviert" and "Authentifizierung - Unix Kennwort"

I downloaded RealVNC (because neither RoyalTS nor UltraVNC worked) and set it up like this:

Now I could access my RaspberryPi:

![grafik.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/achimmertens/9Vz2FAZx-grafik.png)



![grafik.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/achimmertens/Dm8AdJVO-grafik.png)


The next thing is to install Apache Webserver and Wordpress. Stay tuned.


Regards, Achim