Create AWS Quickstart-style reference template

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Create AWS Quickstart-style reference template

[brianmbennett]

Good morning Drey and thank you for the quick response. Unfortunately our organization does not have the skill sets related to the underlying technologies of OSMT. We leverage AWS heavily and would need a better understanding of how you would install this within a single AWS instance. Perhaps we would also want to leverage RDS for the MySQL database.

We would want to know:

• Is there a hosted environment that could be leveraged if we elected not to deploy and host on our own?
• Is there and existing AWS implementation that could be cloned and shared for us to host in our AWS environment for our testing and development purposes?
• Is there anyone that would be able to walk through a deployment in our AWS environment to help get us initially setup?

Feel free to reach me at [email protected] if you want to take offline.

Thank you in advance for any other support you can provide.
-Brian

[brianmbennett]

This would be a great addition. Has any progress been make toward this initiative at this time?

Thank you,
-Brian

[drey-bigney]

Hi Brian,

We've discussed the need for this feature and will begin implementation efforts in the very near future. Would love your input as we move forward!

-Drey

[jotepen]

Brian,

I am close to trying to set up an OSMT docker environment (will probably use EKS) that connects to RDS/MySQL. Once I get it working, I would be happy to share my build notes with you. My current setup uses an EC2 instance with docker installed on it, then I just ran the OSMT quickstart deployment to test it out. Again, happy to help with any questions on what I have done so far.

Josh

[brianmbennett]

Thank you Josh! That would be extremely helpful.

A couple questions:

• How can I add a colleague of mine to also have access to this private github repo?
• Can you tell me your AWS instance specs (ie. hardware size, os type and version as well as docker version info?
• We can at least get as much setup as possible to be in a position to move forward once you share your build notes.
• Is there a hosted test environment we can access to see the tool running before doing an install?

Thank you again,
-Brian

[jotepen]

Brian,

I am using an EC2 instance size of t2.xlarge, I think you can get away with a smaller instance for testing if you want. The aim name that I am using for my image is - amzn2-ami-kernel-5.10-hvm-2.0.20211201.0-x86_64-gp2. The docker version I installed is 20.10.7, which was the most recent at the time.

I followed these instructions to install docker and docker-compose on the EC2 instance - https://gist.github.com/npearce/6f3c7826c7499587f00957fee62f8ee9

Do you use OKTA for your OAuth?

Josh

[JohnKallies]

@brianmbennett

How can I add a colleague of mine to also have access to this private github repo?

I can take that one...

WGU will open the repo to the public on January 31 (I'm finally allowed to say that in the open). This will allow contributors to do all the normal GitHub things (PRs, branches).

Anyone who wants access before that needs to send an email to [email protected], with the requested names/emails/GitHub IDs.

[brianmbennett]

@JohnKallies Thank you John. A couple of my folks will be requesting soon.

@jotepen Josh, we do not use OKTA. We are aiming to eventually leverage OSMT within/along side an existing AWS hosted Django app that currently leverages TokenAuthenication . We could change that authentication mechanism to leverage Django-rest-framework-social-oauth2 . If OAuth is required for OSMT then we would ideally like to leverage an AWS OAuth2 provider if one exists. We have never setup an OAuth2 provider and would need advise on selecting and establishing one. Also ideal would be to have our application and OAuth provider be the same.

Thank you,
-Brian