This page explains how to get started with Ice on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
Select and Launch AMI
Ice 3.7 is available for AWS on the following AMIs
ZeroC Ice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
ZeroC Ice for Ubuntu - Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS)
Navigate to the EC2 Management Console
and follow these steps:
- Select
Launch Instance
- Navigate to the AWS Marketplace page for the ZeroC Ice AMI you wish to use.
- Choose the instance type you wish to run. ZeroC Ice AMIs are available are available in many sizes.
- Configure your
Security Group
to allow access to port 22 for SSH login, as well as any ports for any Ice servers you plan on running. Glacier2 listens (typically) on port4064
(ssl/tls). If you plan on using Glacier then you need to add these port(s) as well. - Select which
Key Pair
to use for access to the instance once it is running. - Configure any remaining instance settings as desired.
- Click Accept Terms & Launch with 1-Click. Be sure to read the End-User License Agreement (EULA) beforehand.
Login
You can log in to your instance through SSH.
ssh -i <keypair> -l <username> <ip address>
Where,
<keypair> -
The SSH keypair selected when you launched your instance<username> -
ec2-user
for Red Hat based instance andubuntu
for Ubuntu based instance<ip address> -
IP address of your instance
Package Configuration
ZeroC Ice AMIs have Ice 3.7 package repositories pre-configured. These repositories contain packages for both development and run time.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
To install all development and run time packages:
sudo yum install ice-all-runtime ice-all-devel
See Using the Linux Binary Distributions for a list of packages.
Ubuntu
To install all development and run time packages:
sudo apt-get install zeroc-ice-all-runtime zeroc-ice-all-dev
See Using the Linux Binary Distributions for a list of packages.