Set up Amazon EC2 VMMS

Introduction

This is a guide to set up Tango to run jobs on an Amazon EC2 VM. If you have yet to set up Tango itself, please see the guide on Setting up Tango first.

Instructions

1. Enter your AWS credentials in /etc/boto.cfg.

2. Create a new EC2 linux instance and follow the steps to set up a Tango VM for this instance.

3. From the AWS console, right click on the instance and create an image.

4. Enter the AWS constants under part 4 of config.py

   • Set the DEFAULT_AMI value to be the ID of the newly created image.

5. Update VMMS_NAME in config.py.

   VMMS_NAME = "ec2SSH"