Server Setup

We're using AWS Lightsail ➜ $5 ➜ 1 GB Memory, 1 Core Processor, 40 GB SSD Disk, 2 TB Transfer

Create Server

• Create a new VM that's at least 1GB RAM & 1vPU

• Assign a static IP

• Get updates with sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y

• Enable Digital Ocean metrics with curl -sSL https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sudo bash

• Install Docker with sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose -y

• Enable Autostart for Docker with sudo systemctl start docker && sudo systemctl enable docker

• Create a new directory with mkdir home at the root.

• Enter cd home

• Clone git repo git clone https://github.com/yalefox/messenger-nats-yalewtf.git

Setup Dev/Production Server Environment

• Navigate to the root directory.

• Run sudo nano .env this is for the server.

POSTGRES_HOST=messages-db
POSTGRES_USER=postgres
POSTGRES_PASS=postgres
POSTGRES_DB=underdog
AWS_REGION=us-east-1							
AWS_POOL_ID=us-east-1_Vv8eSQPw9
AWS_CLIENT_ID=34utdbhl5alaftk8bq9t9qvk9s
NATS_URL=nats://nats:4222
API_PORT=5050

• POSTGRES_PASS: Make sure to set a strong password

• AWS_REGION: Make sure the correct region is specified

• AWS_POOL_ID: This needs to be specified

• AWS_CLIENT_ID: AWS Cognito App Client ID in User Pool needs to be specified