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This README provides brief instructions on setting up a dev environment that you can use to clone the project, edit project files, build the UI and deploy the application. You can also deploy any of the CloudFormation templates from any module using the EC2 instance as well.

We strongly recommend you use this AMI which will have the necessary dependencies, i.e. AWS CLI, git, node/npm, angular cli already installed and configured - you'll only need to clone the git repository.

Our dev environment instance will be in eu-west-1 (Ireland)

Create the IAM Role to assign to the EC2 instance

Brief instructions on how to create the policy and role:

  1. Open IAM
  2. Select Role from the left and then Create Role
  3. Under AWS Service choose EC2 and then select the use case of EC2
  4. Click Next: Permissions
  5. Choose AdministratorAccess from the list of Policies
  6. Click Next: Review
  7. Give the role a name such as EC2-admin-role

Assign this role to the EC2 instance when launching the AMI

Using an AMI

Before you launch the AMI, if this is your first time launching a Linux EC2 instance, read through the following documentation on how to access the instance using SSH keys:

EC2 Linux SSH Documentation

Make sure you are in eu-west-1 region. Launch an EC2 instance by navigating to the "Community AMI"s in step 1 of EC2 launch wizard. In the "Search community AMIs" text box enter "sxr-dev-instance". For this instance a t2.micro will suffice. Launch the instance in a public subnet with a security group allowing ssh from anywhere. Choose the role you created above and assign it to the instance before launching. Assign an existing SSH key you already have access to, or create and download a new one.

Once the instance is up and running, you can connect to it using SSH. Here is a sample of how to use the SSH command on MacOS and Linux:

ssh -i yourkey.pem [email protected] (where x.x.x.x is the public IP of the EC2 instance)

If you are using Windows and Putty, you will need to convert the .pem file to a .ppk file. There are instructions available on how to do this by searching the internet.

Clone the workshop project

Once you get logged in to the instance, run git clone https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-workshops.git

This will pull down all of the files and directories you will need to complete the workshop and keep them on the local file system.

Building the UI

You should now be able to build the UI when you get to that step in the second module, as well as deploy CloudFormation templates, and do any other workshop activities that require command line activities.

One you have the instance up and running and you have connected to it, go ahead and start the workshop.

EC2 Dev Instance Configuration (manually installing - not needed if using the AMI)

If you would really like to set up your own instance from scratch you can execute the following instructions.

For this dev instance

  • a t2.micro will be fine.
  • use the AWS Linux AMI already configured with the AWS CLI.
  • deploy to the default VPC

Your EC2 instance should have:

  • A role assigned that allows full access (see sample policy below).
  • A security group that allows SSH from your IP address.

Once launched, SSH in to your dev EC2 instance.

Update to latest packages

sudo yum update -y

Install git

sudo yum install git -y

Create a dev directory

  • create a dev directory: mkdir sxrdev
  • cd into this directory: cd sxrdev
Install Node & NPM

We will use NVM (Node Version Manager) to install Node and NPM (Node Package Manager).

Execute the following commands to install Node & NPM:

  • Install NVM: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.6/install.sh | bash
  • Activate NVM: - . ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
  • Install Node and NPM: nvm install 8.9.1

Confirm installation by typing the following:

  • npm -v should output '5.5.1'
  • node -v should output 'v8.9.1'

Clone the workshop project

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-workshops.git

Angular CLI installation

Now that you have Node and NPM we can install the Angular CLI to build our project.

Install Angular cli: npm install -g @angular/cli

This will take about a minute and when done you will see a message like "added 968 packages in 31.494s"

Completion

Now you are ready to get back to the Workshop. Go back to the README