AWS Serverless Observability Workshop, Part I

PREREQUISITES

The following prerequisites are required for this workshops:

A computer with an internet connection running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

An internet browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Edge.

Familiarity with common Linux commands and the concepts of CI/CD.

CREATE AN AWS ACCOUNT

If you don’t already have an AWS account with Administrator access: create one now by clicking here

On the left hand navigation, select Users, then click on the Add User button.

Enter the user details:

Attach the AdministratorAccess IAM Policy, and click Next: Tags

We will skip adding tags for the workshop. Click Next: Review

Click to create the new user:

Take note of the login URL and save it for future use:

Click on this URL to go to the AWS Management Console login page, use the username and password for the workshop user you just created.

CREATE A WORKSPACE

Launch Cloud9 in your closest region:

Accept the default values for Stack name and Parameters and click Create stack.

Wait until your Stack creating status shows as CREATE_COMPLETE

Go to your Cloud9 Environment.

Find the environment named serverless-observability-workshop, click Open IDE.

When the Cloud9 console is shown, customize the environment by closing the welcome tab and the AWS Toolkit tab, lower work area, and opening a new terminal tab in the main work area:

Your workspace should now look like this:

UPDATE YOUR WORKSPACE

Install dependencies

Run the following commands in the Cloud9 terminal to update nvm (Node Version Manager) and install jq (a command-line JSON processor) and Locust (a load testing tool)

UPDATE IAM SETTINGS FOR YOUR WORKSPACE

Return to your workspace and click the gear icon (in top right corner), or click to open a new tab and choose “Open Preferences”

Select AWS SETTINGS

Turn off AWS managed temporary credentials

Close the Preferences tab

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