Install and Configure Tools

In the Cloud9 workspace, run the following commands:

Increase the disk size on the Cloud9 instance

export instance_id=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
python -c "import boto3
import os
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError 
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2')
volume_info = ec2.describe_volumes(
    Filters=[
        {
            'Name': 'attachment.instance-id',
            'Values': [
                os.getenv('instance_id')
            ]
        }
    ]
)
volume_id = volume_info['Volumes'][0]['VolumeId']
try:
    resize = ec2.modify_volume(    
            VolumeId=volume_id,    
            Size=30
    )
    print(resize)
except ClientError as e:
    if e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'InvalidParameterValue':
        print('ERROR MESSAGE: {}'.format(e))"
sudo reboot
  • Note: The above command is adding more disk space to the root volume of the EC2 instance that Cloud9 runs on. Once the command completes, we reboot the instance which could take a minute or two for the IDE to come back online.

Install and setup prerequisites

# Install prerequisite packages
sudo yum -y install jq nodejs python36

# Install ecs cli for local testing
sudo curl -so /usr/local/bin/ecs-cli https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-ecs-cli/ecs-cli-linux-amd64-latest
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ecs-cli

# Setting CDK Version
export AWS_CDK_VERSION="1.41.0"

# Install aws-cdk
npm install -g --force aws-cdk@$AWS_CDK_VERSION

# For container insights and service autoscaling load generation
curl -C - -O http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-4.0.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf siege-4.0.5.tar.gz
pushd siege-*
./configure
make all
sudo make install 
popd

# Install cdk packages
pip install --user --upgrade aws-cdk.core==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws-cdk.aws_ecs_patterns==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws-cdk.aws_ec2==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws-cdk.aws_ecs==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws-cdk.aws_servicediscovery==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws_cdk.aws_iam==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
aws_cdk.aws_efs==$AWS_CDK_VERSION \
awscli \
awslogs

# Setting environment variables required to communicate with AWS API's via the cli tools
echo "export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$(curl -s 169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -r .region)" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export AWS_REGION=\$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
  • First install the ECS cli (plus some other text utilities):
sudo curl -so /usr/local/bin/ecs-cli https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-ecs-cli/ecs-cli-linux-amd64-latest
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ecs-cli

sudo yum -y install jq gettext

# For container insights and service autoscaling load generation
curl -C - -O http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-4.0.5.tar.gz
tar -xvf siege-4.0.5.tar.gz
pushd siege-*
./configure
make all
sudo make install 
popd
  • Next configure the AWS cli with our current region as default:
export AWS_REGION=$(curl -s 169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | jq -r .region)
echo "export AWS_REGION=${AWS_REGION}" >> ~/.bash_profile
aws configure set default.region ${AWS_REGION}
aws configure get default.region