This lecture note is not intended to be a replacement for the videos, but only to serve as a cheat sheet for students who want to quickly run thru the AWS configuration steps or easily see if they missed a step. Steps listed are accurate as of 7-11-2019, keep in mind that AWS makes frequent small changes to their UI.
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for RDS
- Click Create database button
- Select PostgreSQL
- Check 'only enable options eligible for RDS Free Usage Tier' and click Next button
- Scroll down to Settings Form
- Set DB Instance identifier to multi-docker-postgres
- Set Master Username to postgres
- Set Master Password to postgres and confirm
- Click Next button
- Make sure VPC is set to Default VPC
- Scroll down to Database Options
- Set Database Name to fibvalues
- Scroll down and click Create Database button
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for ElastiCache
- Click Redis in sidebar
- Click the Create button
- Make sure Redis is set as Cluster Engine
- In Redis Settings form, set Name to multi-docker-redis
- Change Node type to 'cache.t2.micro'
- Change Number of replicas to 0
- Scroll down to Advanced Redis Settings
- Subnet Group should say “Create New"
- Set Name to redis-group
- VPC should be set to default VPC
- Tick all subnet’s boxes
- Scroll down and click Create button
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for VPC
- Click Security Groups in sidebar
- Click Create Security Group button
- Set Security group name to multi-docker
- Set Description to multi-docker
- Set VPC to default VPC
- Click Create Button
- Click Close
- Manually tick the empty field in the Name column of the new security group and type multi-docker, then click the checkmark icon.
- Scroll down and click Inbound Rules
- Click Edit Rules button
- Click Add Rule
- Set Port Range to 5432-6379
- Click in box next to Custom and start typing 'sg' into the box. Select the Security Group you just created, it should look similar to 'sg-…. | - multi-docker’
- Click Save Rules button
- Click Close
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for ElastiCache
- Click Redis in Sidebar
- Check box next to Redis cluster and click Modify
- Change VPC Security group to the multi-docker group and click Save
- Click Modify
- Applying Security Groups to RDS
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for RDS
- Click Databases in Sidebar and check box next to your instance
- Click Modify button
- Scroll down to Network and Security change Security group to multi-docker
- Scroll down and click Continue button
- Click Modify DB instance button
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for Elastic Beanstalk
- Click the multi-docker application tile
- Click Configuration link in Sidebar
- Click Modify in Instances card
- Scroll down to EC2 Security Groups and tick box next to multi-docker
- Click Apply and Click Confirm
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for Elastic Beanstalk
- Click the multi-docker application tile
- Click Configuration link in Sidebar
- Select Modify in the Software tile
- Scroll down to Environment properties
- In another tab Open up ElastiCache, click Redis and check the box next to your cluster. Find the Primary Endpoint and copy that value but omit the : 6379
- Set REDIS_HOST key to the primary endpoint listed above, remember to omit :6379
- Set REDIS_PORT to 6379
- Set PGUSER to postgres
- Set PGPASSWORD to postgrespassword
- In another tab, open up RDS dashboard, click databases in sidebar, click your instance and scroll to Connectivity and Security. Copy the endpoint.
- Set the PGHOST key to the endpoint value listed above.
- Set PGDATABASE to fibvalues
- Set PGPORT to 5432
- Click Apply button
- Go to AWS Management Console and use Find Services to search for IAM
- Click Users link in the Sidebar
- Click Add User button
- Set User name to multi-docker-deployer
- Set Access-type to Programmatic Access
- Click Next: Permissions button
- Select Attach existing polices directly button
- Search for 'beanstalk' and check all boxes
- Click Next: Review
- Add tag if you want and Click Next: Review
- Click Create User
- Copy Access key ID and secret access key for use later
- Open up Travis dashboard and find your multi-docker app
- Click More Options, and select Settings
- Scroll to Environment Variables
- Add AWS_ACCESS_KEY and set to your AWS access key
- Add AWS_SECRET_KEY and set to your AWS secret key