Setting up AWS-based rr release testing

• Create an AWS account.
• Switch to the us-east-2 (Ohio) region. The AMI IDs under distro-configs are all for the us-east-2 region so this region must be used.
• Use the EC2 console to create a keypair named rr-testing. This will download a file called rr-testing.pem containing the private key; move it somewhere safe and chmod go-r ... to make ssh happy.
• Install boto3 locally, e.g. using pip install boto3.
• Install aws-cli locally, e.g. using these instructions.
• Set AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in your environment.
• Create AWS resources using aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name rr-testing --template-body file://path/to/rr-testing-cloud-formation.json.
  • In the future, use aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name rr-testing --template-body file://path/to/rr-testing-cloud-formation.json to update when that configuration file changes.