Week 5: AWS Branch of SCC Training Material

[nyameko]

• Topics: Amend the following sections of the Selection Round Training material, in an appropriately named branch:
  • Tutorial 1: Section 3 - Launching your first AWS EC2 Instance
  • Tutorial 3, Section 8 - Spinning up a Second Compute Node Using a Snapshot
  • Tutorial 4, Section 4 - Automating the Deployment of Your AWS Instances Using Terraform
• Tasks:
  • Create a feature branch that adds a section with pictures to the tutorial content
  • Submit a PR

[nyameko]

To assist you in editing markdown and preparing your Pull / Merge Requests, you are strongly advised to review:

• The first page from Selection Round Content Contribution to the Project, just that you will be creating a fork.
• The section just below that, with the links to GitHub Markdown Syntax and Style.

[mohhlahlanewilliam]

• Topics: Amend the following sections of the Selection Round Training material, in an appropriately named branch:

  • Tutorial 1: Section 3 - Launching your first AWS EC2 Instance
  • Tutorial 3, Section 8 - Spinning up a Second Compute Node Using a Snapshot
  • Tutorial 4, Section 4 - Automating the Deployment of Your AWS Instances Using Terraform

• Tasks:

  • Create a feature branch that adds a section with pictures to the tutorial content
  • Submit a PR

On tutorial 3 section 8 we have found that it cannot be replicated on aws, we have tried but there no options to do so but the rest can be done we will submit the PR shortly

[nyameko]

Hi @mohhlahlanewilliam ,

What you and your team were supposed to investigate and complete, was the use of an Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). You then snapshot this into an AMI (Amazon Machine Instance).

This is what you would then use to create a new EC2 (Elastic Compute) instance.

[ZamaZethu]

"On tutorial 3 section 8 we have found that it cannot be replicated on aws, we have tried but there no options to do so but the rest can be done we will submit the PR shortly"

As @nyameko stated you were supposed to take a snapshot of your 1st compute node root block storage (EBS), it's a roots disk that contains the OS which can be used to create more compute node..