lightsail-home-assistant

Home Assistant installation on AWS Lightsail

Create instance

Create AWS Lightsail instance via AWS Lightsail CLI

aws lightsail create-instances --instance-names "ha-vm" --availability-zone eu-west-2a --blueprint-id amazon_linux_2 --bundle-id micro_2_0 --user-data file://user-data.txt

You can find the script in /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt on the instance

Configure instance

Open ports

aws lightsail open-instance-public-ports --port-info fromPort=443,toPort=443,protocol=TCP --instance-name ha-vm

Deploy IoT Republish rules via CloudFormation

aws cloudformation deploy --template-file iot-rules-cfn.yaml --stack-name iot-stack --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Monitoring IoT

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/configure-logging.html