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Running on an AWS ec2 VM

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Initialize

  • First you need to set up your AWS account
  • If you are currently a student, sign up for Github Developer Pack.
  • You will get several awesome offers, including a free AWS student account with $100 credit!
  • Once you have an account you will need to go to your console through your aws account
  • Next go to Launch a virtual machine
  • Choose the Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volum Type
    • This should be the first option available
  • Be sure to download and save your key-pair.pem
    • Need to protect this private key file with instructions here

ssh into your vm instance

  • I prefer to do this on my local machine
  • here are some steps to connecting via SSH provided by AWS
  • TIP: Your username is likely ec2-user
    • To check this, go to your EC@ instance and hit connect at the top

Download Docker

  • Awesome instructions here
  • Git is necessary for cloning your repositories over and running your personal twitter bot on this VM

Download Redis

  • Awesome instructions here
  • Very easy and can be completed in < 10 minutes
  • Be sure to create a secure password if you choose to configure remote access (recommended >= 32 characters)
  • Find your external IP on your VM console (needed for the HOST env variable)

Create custom TCP (IF you want to use Redis outside of your VM)

  • Also need to create a custom TCP internal security group
  • To do this go to Security then click on the security group listed
  • Next Edit Inbound rules
  • Should look like this
  • Alt text

Download Docker

  • Awesome instructions
  • Alt text
  • Check that install worked
  • $ docker --version
  • If this shows your docker version then you've successfully installed docker on your vm instance

Clone your git repository to run within docker

Build the docker image

  • cd into twitter-bot directory
  • $ docker build -t bot .

Check if image was created

$ docker image ls

Run docker image in a container

$ docker run -d \
  --name bot_name \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -e CONSUMER_KEY="some consumer ID" \
  -e CONSUMER_SECRET="some consumer secret KEY" \
  -e KEY="some key ID" \
  -e SECRET="some secret key ID" \
  -e HOST="external ip address" \
  -e REDIS_PASS="some password" \
  -v $PWD:/work \
  bot

Check that the container is running

  • $ docker container ls
  • $ docker logs bot_name