Provision a Deis Cluster on Amazon EC2

Install the AWS Command Line Interface:

$ pip install awscli
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Configure aws-cli

Run aws configure to set your AWS credentials:

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: ***************
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: ************************
Default region name [None]: us-west-1
Default output format [None]:

Upload keys

Upload a new keypair to AWS, ensuring that the name of the keypair is set to "deis".

Customize cloudformation.json

Edit cloudformation.json, ensuring to add a new discovery URL. You can get a new one by sending a new request to http://discovery.etcd.io/new.

    {
        "ParameterKey":     "DiscoveryURL",
        "ParameterValue":   "https://discovery.etcd.io/40826e8da55f4d9026935ab67b243c6a"
    }

NOTE: If you're interested in running your own discovery endpoint or want to know more about the discovery URL, see http://discovery.etcd.io for more information. You can also read more on how you can customize this cluster by looking at the CoreOS EC2 template and applying it to cloudformation.json.

Run the provision script

Run the cloudformation provision script to spawn a new CoreOS cluster:

$ ./provision-ec2-cluster.sh
{
    "StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-west-1:413516094235:stack/deis/9699ec20-c257-11e3-99eb-50fa01cd4496"
}
Your Deis cluster has successfully deployed.
Please wait for all instances to come up as "running" before continuing.

Initialize the cluster

Once the cluster is up, get the hostname of any of the machines from EC2, set FLEETCTL_TUNNEL, and issue a make run from the project root:

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
$ export FLEETCTL_TUNNEL=ec2-12-345-678-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
$ cd ../.. && make run
The authenticity of host '54.215.248.50:22' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 86:10:74:b9:6a:ee:3b:21:d0:0f:b4:63:cc:10:64:c9.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '54.215.248.50:22' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Job deis-registry.service started on aec641dc.../172.31.21.4
Job deis-logger.service started on 494dcb6a.../172.31.5.226
Job deis-database.service started on aec641dc.../172.31.21.4
Job deis-cache.service started on aec641dc.../172.31.21.4
Job deis-controller.service started on aec641dc.../172.31.21.4
Job deis-builder.service started on 494dcb6a.../172.31.5.226
Job deis-router.service started on aec641dc.../172.31.21.4
done!

Run Deis!

After that, wait for the components to come up, check which host the controller is running on and register with Deis!

$ fleetctl list-units
UNIT                    LOAD    ACTIVE  SUB     DESC            MACHINE
deis-builder.service    loaded  active  running deis-builder    d9f1f3ea.../172.31.5.62
deis-cache.service      loaded  active  running deis-cache      d9f1f3ea.../172.31.5.62
deis-controller.service loaded  active  running deis-controller d9f1f3ea.../172.31.5.62
deis-database.service   loaded  active  running deis-database   13c5541b.../172.31.5.61
deis-logger.service     loaded  active  running deis-logger     d9f1f3ea.../172.31.5.62
deis-registry.service   loaded  active  running deis-registry   4c263e91.../172.31.24.155
deis-router.service     loaded  active  running deis-router     13c5541b.../172.31.5.61
$ deis register ec2-12-345-678-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8000
username: deis
password:
password (confirm):
email: info@opdemand.com