Lightsail Docker

Experiment with Lightsail instances that install Docker.

NOTE: This is for educational purposes primarily. If you'd like to adapt it for production use, you're more than welcome.

Requirements

• Docker
• GnuMake

Step 1 - Create an IAM user with a suitable Lightsail policy

AWS (at time of writing) does not supply a pre-built policy for Lightsail so you can use the very simple policy included.

1. Create the Lightsail IAM policy (lightsail-iam.json).
2. Create an IAM user that has CLI access, attaching the Lightsail IAM policy you created.

NOTE: For production usage, you would want to refine the allowable actions.

Step 2 - Run the AWS CLI container

THis creates an ephermeral container so will call aws-configure for you. You may want to create your own docker run command if that doesn't suit.

make aws-cli-run

Step 3 - Create a lightsail instance

Now that you're inside the AWS CLI container and have entered your access details, you're ready to create lightstail instances.

make create-instance INSTANCE_NAME=lightsail-docker-awesomeness

## Some time passes..

## Get a list of instances created
make get-instances

# Or the list with just the names only (handy for when you want to delete)
make get-active-names

# Clean-up
make delete-instance INSTANCE_NAME=lightsail-docker-awesomeness

Step 4 - Make your Lightsail instances do awesome stuff

This part is up to you. Below are some useful resources to continue learning about Lightsail.

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