AWS CentOS7 EC2 — Essentials

Sikandar Khan

May 1, 2018·2 min read

Appreciable thing is, AWS provides OS with default software and required hardware. However, very regular customised usage would be, using EC2 as web server along with nodejs apps. Most of the times, devs find very cumbersome job to do server setup. I experience this problem.

1. Git — code version control system

Install : sudo yum install git
Check version : git --version

2. Node js — server environment

Download dependancies : 
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -Install : sudo yum install -y nodejs

3. PM2 Process manager for NodeJS

Install : sudo npm install pm2@latest -g

4. NGINX Web-server installation

5. Zip/unzip

ZIP:  zip -r filename.zip foldername/
UNZIP: unzip filename.zip

Feel free to recommend other softwares/packages.

Happy exploration.