Setting up AWS

Initial setup

The EC2 setup code is based on RLLAB, and the instructions for setting up your AWS account are located here: https://rllab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/cluster.html

To begin with setting up AWS, first set the $DOODAD_S3_BUCKET environment variable, then run:

python scripts/setup_ec2.py

The script will automatically create a bucket and initialize credentials required for launching jobs.

Create an AMI image

In order to use doodad, the AMI image should be an Ubuntu image with awscli and docker installed.

You can create an image by creating an EC2 instance, setting up the appropriate tools, and creating a "snapshot". Detailed instructions are here.

awscli can be installed via the following command:

curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip"
unzip awscli-bundle.zip
sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws

After these commands, the aws command should become available.