AWS EC2 Setup

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Launch EC2 Instance

Click Launch instances in EC2 > Instances.

Enter or select the instance information as follows:

• Name and tags
  • Name: Instance name
• Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image)
  • Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (amd64)
• Instance type
  • Select type t3.large or higher specification
• Key pair (login)
  • Select the key pair created in the previous step

Configure 6 Security group rules and storage settings as follows:

• Network settings
  • VPC: Target VPC for EC2 provisioning. Must be able to communicate with the internet
  • Subnet: Select public subnet with internet gateway connected
  • Auto-assign public IP: Enable
  • Firewall (security groups)
    • Select Create security group and enter appropriate security group name
    • Security group name: Name for security group
    • Description: Security group description
    • Add security group rules

    rule_01

    • Type: SSH
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 22
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    rule_02

    • Type: HTTP
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 80
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    rule_03

    • Type: HTTPS
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 443
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    rule_04

    • Type: Custom TCP
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 6443
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    rule_05

    • Type: Custom TCP
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 9001
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0

    rule_06

    • Type: Custom TCP
    • Protocol: TCP
    • Port range: 9009
    • Source: 0.0.0.0/0
• Configure storage
  • 1 x 60GiB, select gp3

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Associate Elastic IP Address

Go to EC2 > Network & Security > Elastic IPs, click the IP allocated in the previous step, then click Associate Elastic IP address. Enter the following information to associate:

• Resource type: Instance
• Instance: Select the EC2 instance created in the previous step
• Private IP: Private IP address of the EC2 instance

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Connect to EC2 and Install Packages

Click the Connect button on the EC2 details page and check the SSH connection command in the SSH Client tab. Then, run the command in your terminal to connect to the EC2 instance, and follow the instructions below to install the packages.

sudo ufw disable

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash

source ~/.bashrc
nvm install 16
nvm alias default 16
node -v

npm install pm2@latest -g

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3

chmod 700 get_helm.sh
./get_helm.sh  

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Export Environment Variables

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<AWS Access Key>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<AWS Secret Access Key>
export AWS_REGION=<AWS Region>
export AWS_HOSTED_ZONE_ID=<Route53 Hosted Zone ID>
export AWS_DOMAIN=<Route53 Domain>
export ACME_EMAIL=<ACME Email>

AWS Route53 Hosted Zone ID

You can find the Hosted Zone ID in Route53 > Hosted Zones > Hosted Zone Details.