AWS Virtual Machine Setup

Published

May 1, 2020

Prerequisites

If you want to use a AWS Academy VM for this course, you will need to have an AWS Educate account. Please email the admin for with the subject line “AWS Educate Account Request” and include your full name and course code. You will receive an email from AWS Educate with instructions on how to create an account.

AWS Virtual Machine Setup

Watch and follow the two videos, and or follow along with the AWS Virtual Machine Creation Document. Copy paste code from the cell below.

Setup AWS Documentation

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git clone https://github.com/byui-bwh/db-workstation-automation.git 

cd db-workstation-automation/

. ./provision_vm.sh

Clone this GitHub Repository

cd Desktop
git clone https://github.com/NicholasBoss/clarkstudents24.git

Installing GitHub Desktop

  • Open the Repo just cloned in Visual Studio Code
  • Navigate through code to week 2 and open the root.py file
  • Run the code in the root.py file by pressing the play button in the top right corner of the file
    • When asked to run the GitHub desktop script answer y
    • When asked to run the file setup script answer n
    • Close the file

Installing Quarto CLI

  • Navigete to the Quarto CLI website for Linux
    • Run all the termainal commands on the site in the terminal in the AWS instance

Installing the Quarto VS Code Extension

  • Open Visual Studio Code
  • Click on the Extensions icon in the left side bar
  • Search for Quarto in the search bar
  • Click the Install button on the Quarto extension
  • Close the Extensions tab

Install Python Libraries

  • Open the terminal in Visual Studio Code
  • Run the following command to install the required Python libraries
pip install numpy pandas scikit-learn plotly.express nbformat nbclient pyyaml jupyter

Install Other VS Code Extensions

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