Deploying EHRBase to AWS in 5 minutes

 To create an EHRBase deploy in AWS ECS you must follow these steps

• Launch an empty Linux 2 or Linux image
• Configure specs according the expected use (you can probably leave most of the options as is)
• edit: Don't forget to add 8080 to the instance firewall (keep port 22 for SSH)
  
• Generate key (and save it!)
• Run container
• Connect by SSH to the instance
• Url: instance IP
• User: ec2-user
• Password (empty, provide pem/ppk file)
• Install docker
• Update packages
• sudo yum update -y
• Install most recent docker version  (for Linux 2 AMI)
• sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker
• Install most recent docker version  (for Linux AMI)
• sudo yum install docker
• Open docker service
• sudo service docker start
• Add ec2-user to docker group so it can execute docker commands without using sudo
• sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
• Close session so permissions are applied
• Test that ec2-user can indeed execute docker
• docker info
• If a daemon error is thrown then you probably need to restart the instance (or the docker service is actually down)
• Run database docker image
• docker network create ehrbase-net
• docker run --name ehrdb --network ehrbase-net -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -d -p 5432:5432 ehrbaseorg/ehrbase-postgres:latest
• Run ehrbase docker image
• docker run --name ehrbase --network ehrbase-net -p 8080:8080 ehrbaseorg/ehrbase

And that’s all. You can test EHRBase server with swagger, which is available at

{your IP}:8080/ehrbase/swagger-ui.html

 

PS: This AWS configuration is inside the free tier :)

Sources:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/es_es/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/docker-basics.html

https://github.com/ehrbase/ehrbase