AWS System Administration by Mike Ryan

Author:Mike Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: COMPUTERS / Systems Architecture / Distributed Systems & Computing
ISBN: 9781449372033
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Installing the Web Application

The first step is to launch and configure the EC2 instance that will run the web and task-processing applications. Once it is configured and working properly, create an Amazon Machine Image so it can be used as part of a CloudFormation stack.

First, we will install the software manually, and then “translate” these manual steps into Puppet manifests.

Start by creating a new security group named web-instances. This security group should allow inbound TCP traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 on ports 8000 and 80.

Next, launch an EC2 instance using the Ubuntu 14.04 AMI, making sure that this instance is a member of the webserver security group. Once the instance has launched, log in with SSH.

Mezzanine is a Python package available from PyPI, Python’s package management system. Python packages can be installed with the pip command. First, we need to install pip, along with the Python development libraries:

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