From 479b6b448012d9da34961f0078f7d72934bde326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arunav Sanyal Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:16:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update installation instructions for Amazon Linux Not everyone has a machine/instance lying around with kvm and virt assist. A lot of developers just leverage cloud providers to give them the necessary instances to work it. This commit improves installation instructions for Amazon Linux 2 --- docs/installation.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md index 67e311a2e..d21d41d8e 100644 --- a/docs/installation.md +++ b/docs/installation.md @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ KVM acceleration can be used With this kind of output, you're ready to go! +Alternatively if you want to run this on AWS EC2, use Amazon Linux v2 (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/) and ensure you use a baremetal instance, like the r series like say r5.metal (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/). + ## Installing dependencies Ignite has a few dependencies (read more in this [doc](dependencies.md)). @@ -64,6 +66,14 @@ which containerd || ( yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/ # Install containerd if it's not present ``` +Amazon Linux 2 + +```bash +yum install -y e2fsprogs openssh-clients git +which containerd || amazon-linux-extras enable docker && yum install -y containerd + # Install containerd if it's not present +``` + ### CNI Plugins Install the CNI binaries like this: