Lighthouse_db and EB

lighthouse_db and EB

First you'll need to clone the ```docker-1``` branch of lighthouse_db at <https://github.com/richardking/lighthouse_db/tree/docker-1>. After you clone it, compress the tree into a .zip file[^note].

Also you may want to create an SSH key-pair in the EC2 Console so you can SSH into the EC2 instance after it is built:

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### Within Elastic Beanstalk console

Start by clicking the 'Create a New Application' in the Elastic Beanstalk console.

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Enter an application name:

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On the **Environment Type** page, select:
Environment Tier: Web Server 1.0
Predefined configuration: Docker
Environment type: Single Instance (can be 'Load balancing, autoscaling' if necessary)

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On the **Application Version** page, select 'Upload your own', and pick the zip file you created earlier.

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The next screen, **Environment Information**, should be pre-populated. You can change the environment name/url if you want, or if there is a conflict.

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On the **Additional Resources** page, make sure to select:
```Create an RDS DB Instance with this environment```

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On the **Configuration Details** page, select an ```Instance Type``` (I usually select m1.medium or m1.large, just so the environment isn't super slow) and ```EC2 key pair``` (which you may have created earlier) as necessary. I don't change the ```Email address``` or ```Instance profile``` fields.

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I don't enter anything on the next page (**Environment Tags**).

On the **RDS Configuration** page, change:
DB Engine: Postgres
Allocated storage: 5 GB
Instance class: [change as necessary]
Username: postgres
Password: [anything]

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Review the information on the final step and then click **Launch** to build the instance and DB. It should take about 15 minutes to build the DB and start the instance.

### SSH-ing into EC2
Note: You can only do this if added your SSH key-pair in the EC2 console, as specified in the beginning of this document.

Log into the EC2 Console, click on ```Instances``` in the left-hand menu and search for your environment:

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Click on your instance, and in the bottom section, look for ```Public DNS``` (top right corner):

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You can ssh into the EC2 instance by typing ```ssh ec2-user@[public-dns]``` in your terminal.

Within the SSH session, you can look up your Docker images using ```sudo docker images```, and your Docker containers using ```sudo docker ps```.

[^note]: Make sure the zip file's top level directory is your project root. Note that if you download the zip directory from GitHub, the zip file will contain a folder with the project in it- this will *not* work for EB.