devops-exercises/exercises/aws/solutions/launch_ec2_web_instance.md

AWS - Launch EC2 Web Instance

Objectives

Launch one EC2 instance with the following requirements:

1. Amazon Linux 2 image
2. Instance type: pick up one that has 1 vCPUs and 1 GiB memory
3. Instance storage should be deleted upon the termination of the instance
4. When the instance starts, it should install:
5. Install the httpd package
6. Start the httpd service
7. Make sure the content of /var/www/html/index.html is I made it! This is is awesome!
8. It should have the tag: "Type: web" and the name of the instance should be "web-1"
9. HTTP traffic (port 80) should be accepted from anywhere

Solution

1. Choose a region close to you
2. Go to EC2 service
3. Click on "Instances" in the menu and click on "Launch instances"
4. Choose image: Amazon Linux 2
5. Choose instance type: t2.micro
6. Make sure "Delete on Termination" is checked in the storage section
7. Under the "User data" field the following:

yum update -y
yum install -y httpd
systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd
echo "<h1>I made it! This is is awesome!</h1>" > /var/www/html/index.html

8. Add tags with the following keys and values:

• key "Type" and the value "web"
• key "Name" and the value "web-1"

9. In the security group section, add a rule to accept HTTP traffic (TCP) on port 80 from anywhere
10. Click on "Review" and then click on "Launch" after reviewing.
11. If you don't have a key pair, create one and download it.