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AWS CodeDeploy: Instance preparation

AWS CodeDeploy: Instance preparation

- [Instructor] All right. In this demo we're going to prepare an instance for use with CodeDeploy. This is going to involve a few steps. Our goal is to create an Auto Scaling group of instances with a CodeDeploy agent on them. So first we're going to launch an instance manually, then use Systems Manager to install the CodeDeploy agent and then create an AMI image from that machine. Later on, we'll use that image as the basis for the instances in an Auto Scaling group. So to get started, we're here at the console home and we want to go into the EC2 section. Click into instances, and you can choose Launch Instances. We'll give this one a name, which we'll call CodeDeployInstanceTemplate. Now, along the way here, we're going to have some options, and not every one of them is going to be critical because all that we're really interested in is the configuration of what's on the machine. That means things like security groups aren't that big a deal. Okay. We're going to keep this at the…

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