Creating a GridGain EC2 AMI

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Creating an AMI for GridGain

There is currently no public AMI that matches the configuration required by the ICB therefore one must be created. The following describes the steps used to create an EC2 AMI for GridGain running on ubuntu 9.0.4 with the sun jdk. This needs to be once for each architecture type desired (i.e., i386, x86_64).

 # start a base ubunutu instance corresponding to the architecture desired
 # either a "small" 32 bit version
 user@local $ ec2-run-instances --key campagne-lab ami-0d729464
 # or a "large" 64 bit version
 user@local $ ec2-run-instances --instance-type m1.large --key campagne-lab ami-1f749276

 # login as root to the instance
 # update the base packages (required)
 root@ec2 # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

 # install the jdk
 # NOTE: JAVA_HOME can be "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun" OR just "/usr"
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y sun-java6-jdk

 # install the ec2 api tools
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y ec2-api-tools

 # install other common packages
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y screen
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y emacs22
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y zip
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y ant
 root@ec2 # apt-get install -y subversion

 # install S3 Tools (http://s3tools.org/) - the ubuntu packaged version is too old
 # download tar file and install with "python setup.py install
 # s3cmd will get placed into /usr/local/bin (TODO: configure)

 # install groovy
 root@ec2 # cd /tmp
 root@ec2 # wget http://dist.groovy.codehaus.org/distributions/groovy-binary-1.6.4.zip
 root@ec2 # cd /usr/local
 root@ec2 # unzip /tmp/groovy-binary-1.6.4.zip
 root@ec2 # cd /usr/local/bin
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/groovy .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/grape .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/groovyc .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/groovyConsole .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/groovysh .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/java2groovy .
 root@ec2 # ln -s ../groovy-1.6.4/bin/startGroovy .

 # install GridGain (http://www.gridgain.com/)

 # set up the default environment - add the following to ~/.profile
 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
 export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/groovy-1.6.4
 export GRIDGAIN_HOME=/usr/local/gridgain-2.1.1

 # copy the keys up to the ec2 instance
 user@local $ scp -i campagnelab.pem -r ~/.ec2/*.pem root@ec2:/tmp

 # bundle the image
 root@ec2 # ec2-bundle-vol --cert /tmp/cert-XXX.pem --privatekey /tmp/pk-XXX.pem --user XXX --prefix gridgain-xxx-i386

 # upload to S3
 root@ec2 # ec2-upload-bundle --bucket icb-gridgain-images --manifest /tmp/gridgain-xxx-i386.manifest.xml --access-key XXX --secret-key XXX

 # register the image
 user@local $ ec2-register icb-gridgain-images/gridgain-xxx-i386.manifest.xml