Before we begin coding, there are a few things we need to install, update, and configure in the Cloud9 environment.
In the Cloud9 terminal, run the following commands to install and update some software we’ll be using for this workshop:
# Update the AWS CLI
pip install --user --upgrade awscli
A best practice is to deploy your infrastructure close to your customers, let’s configure a default AWS region for this workshop : Northern Virginia (*us-east-1*)
for North America or Ireland (*eu-west-1*)
for Europe.
Create an AWS config file, run:
cat <<END > ~/.aws/config
[default]
region=us-east-1
END
cat <<END > ~/.aws/config
[default]
region=eu-west-1
END
Creating an SSH KeyPair will allow us to connect to other EC2 instances from our cloud9 machine.
Let’s run this command in our terminal:
aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name workshop --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > workshop.pem
That will create a new private key on our machine, in workshop.pem
, and a public key for EC2 to manage. For security reasons we’ll change the permissions on the workshop.pem
file so that only we can read it.
chmod 400 workshop.pem
Now we can start an ssh-agent
running the background that can manage our keys and connections for us.
eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add workshop.pem
If it asks for a passphrase you can include one or leave it blank and just press enter.