Basic Software installation| Moving micro-services into AWS EC2 instance – Part 1

As I mentioned in the previous post, I have decided to move away from micro-services. To achieve this, I am taking an AWS EC2 instance and configuring each micro-service on this instance. For this setup, I am using an Ubuntu 16.04 machine because my application setup is a bit old. However, if you have newer versions of Rails, Ruby, etc., you may want to choose Ubuntu 20.04.

Our setup includes Ruby on Rails (5.2.1) micro-services (5-10 in number), a NodeJS application, a Sinatra Application, and an Angular 9.1 Front-End Application.

To begin, go to the AWS EC2 home page and select an Ubuntu 16.04 machine with default configurations and SSH enabled.

https://ap-south-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home

Now login to this new instance and install all the packages we needed for our setup.

Software Installation

Update the package list.

sudo apt-get update

Install Ruby dependencies.

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install graphviz

Install NodeJS

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node -v

Install yarn and other dependencies.

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install git-core zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev software-properties-common libffi-dev nodejs yarn

Install Mysql 5.7 (Remember this is for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 versions)

sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 libmysqlclient-dev
sudo service mysql status # or
systemctl status mysql
username: <your-username>, password: <your-password>

You can also try
mysql_secure_installation, if you use other mysql version.

Note that if you are setting up Ubuntu 20.04, there is a significant change in MySQL, as the version of MySQL is now 8.0 instead of 5.7. If you have applications running in MySQL 5.7, it is recommended that you set up and use Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04.

We will continue the installation process in our next post.

Author: Abhilash

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