Can't install CodeDeploy in Lightsail instance with Amazon Linux 2 - amazon-web-services

Question

As wasn't particularly satisfied with only being able to use Amazon Linux (wanted to use Amazon Linux 2 as well), created two instances using both OS versions and adding the same script
mkdir /etc/codedeploy-agent/
mkdir /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf
cat <<EOT >> /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeploy.onpremises.yml
---
aws_access_key_id: ACCESS
aws_secret_access_key: SECRET
iam_user_arn: arn:aws:iam::525221857828:user/GeneralUser
region: eu-west-2
EOT
wget https://aws-codedeploy-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/latest/install
chmod +x ./install
sudo ./install auto
The difference I noted between the two is that in the instance that has Linux 2, the folder /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/ has only one file
and in Linux has two files
Knowing this, I created a new file in the Linux 2 instance with the same name
touch codedeployagent.yml
, changed its permissions from
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 Oct 2 10:43 codedeployagent.yml
to
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261 Oct 2 10:43 codedeployagent.yml
, and added the same content
:log_aws_wire: false
:log_dir: '/var/log/aws/codedeploy-agent/'
:pid_dir: '/opt/codedeploy-agent/state/.pid/'
:program_name: codedeploy-agent
:root_dir: '/opt/codedeploy-agent/deployment-root'
:verbose: false
:wait_between_runs: 1
:proxy_uri:
:max_revisions: 5
and then rebooted the machine. Still, this didn't fix the issue as when I run
sudo service codedeploy-agent status
will still get
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status codedeploy-agent.service Unit
codedeploy-agent.service could not be found.
Also ensured all the updates were in place, rebooted the machine but that didn't work either.

Answer 1

I can provide details of my setup for Amazon Linux 2 instances to deploy CodeDeployGitHubDemo (based on past question).
1. CodeDeploy agent
Used the following as UserData (you may need to adjust region if not us-east-1):
#!/bin/bash
yum update -y
yum install -y ruby wget
cd /home/ec2-user
wget https://aws-codedeploy-us-east-1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/install
chmod +x ./install
./install auto
It did not require hard-coding credentials. The following works perfectly fine on Amazon Linux 2 instances that I've used.
2. Instance role
Your instance needs a role suitable for CodeDeploy. I used an EC2 instance role with policy listed here:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Action": [
"s3:Get*",
"s3:List*"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
3. Deployment group
I had three instances for tests in an AutoScaling group, called myasg:
4. Deployment
I deployed from S3 without Load Balancer:
5. Results
No issues were found and deployment was successful:
And the website running (need to open port 80 in security groups):
Update
For manual installation on Amazon Linux 2. You can sudo su - to become root after login.
mkdir -p /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf
cat <<EOT >> /etc/codedeploy-agent/conf/codedeploy.onpremises.yml
---
aws_access_key_id: ACCESS
aws_secret_access_key: SECRET
iam_user_arn: arn:aws:iam::525221857828:user/GeneralUser
region: eu-west-2
EOT
yum install -y wget ruby
wget https://aws-codedeploy-us-west-2.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/latest/install
chmod +x ./install
env AWS_REGION=eu-west-2 ./install rpm
To check its status:
systemctl status codedeploy-agent
With this you should get something like this
● codedeploy-agent.service - AWS CodeDeploy Host Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/codedeploy-agent.service; enabled; vendor prese
t: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2020-10-03 07:18:57 UTC; 3s ago
Process: 3609 ExecStart=/bin/bash -a -c [ -f /etc/profile ] && source /etc/profile; /opt
/codedeploy-agent/bin/codedeploy-agent start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 3623 (ruby)
CGroup: /system.slice/codedeploy-agent.service
├─3623 codedeploy-agent: master 3623
└─3627 codedeploy-agent: InstanceAgent::Plugins::CodeDeployPlugin::CommandPo...
Oct 03 07:18:57 ip-172-26-8-137.eu-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Starting AWS Cod...
Oct 03 07:18:57 ip-172-26-8-137.eu-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Started AWS Code...
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
If you run
sudo service codedeploy-agent status
you'll get (meaning it's working as expected)
The AWS CodeDeploy agent is running as PID 3623
To start if not running:
systemctl start codedeploy-agent