Installing Gaffer on AWS with EC2 Image Builder

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This is a guide to setting up Amazon Web Services EC2 Image Builder with Gaffer. The EC2 Image Builder is a service from AWS that allows you to create AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for use with EC2 with all the software and configuration needed to run jobs on AWS.

This guide is intended for users with some AWS knowledge but not expert level. After completing this guide, you will have an EC2 AMI available to your AWS users that can be run on any EC2 instance type for running Gaffer tasks. These instances can be launched manually through the AWS management console, via Python scripts or AWS terminals, or from applications like Thinkbox's Deadline.

Overview

The EC2 Image Builder is split into number of different parts. We need to work with three of those to create our Gaffer image. Image Pipelines are what