README.amazon_linux

# c3.2xlarge is a lower price but powerful dev box for build and test
# try local ssd disk without EBS
# 8 to 16 GB RAM
# 2 to 8 cores CPU

# Select Amazon Linux OS (as opposed to RHEL or CENTOS or Debian etc)

# edit hostname
sudo vim /etc/sysconfig/network
sudo vim /etc/hosts

# add mount points
sudo vim /etc/fstab

# install packages
sudo yum -y install git gcc readline-devel zlib-devel libcurl-devel bzip2-devel bison flex gcc-c++ python-devel openssl-devel libffi-devel libapr-devel libevent-devel
sudo yum -y install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.noarch perl-ExtUtils-Embed.noarch
sudo yum -y install apr-util-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel

# edit /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.overcommit_memory = 2

# edit /etc/security/limits.conf
* soft core unlimited
* soft nofile 65536
* hard nofile 65536
* soft nproc 131072
* hard nproc 131072

# edit /etc/grub.conf
add transparent_hugepage=never to kernel boot command line
cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

# update blockdev read ahead
/sbin/blockdev --setra 16384 GPDB_DEVICE_NAMES

# reboot host

# pip packages
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python
sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel pip psutil

# configure and build
git clone https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb.git
cd gpdb
./configure --with-openssl --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-python --with-perl
make
sudo make install
. /usr/local/gpdb/greenplum_path.sh

# create init system file with update values
cp $GPHOME/docs/cli_help/gpconfigs/gpinitsystem_test .
mkdir /home/ec2-user/primary
mkdir /home/ec2-user/mirror
mkdir /home/ec2-user/master

# update these line to reflect accurate names
declare -a DATA_DIRECTORY=(/home/ec2-user/primary /home/ec2-user/primary)
declare -a MIRROR_DATA_DIRECTORY=(/home/ec2-user/mirror /home/ec2-user/mirror)
MASTER_DIRECTORY=/home/ec2-user/master
MASTER_HOSTNAME=mydev
MACHINE_LIST_FILE=/home/ec2-user/hostfile_gpinitsystem

# initialize the system
gpssh-exkeys -h `hostname`
echo `hostname` > hostfile_gpinitsystem
gpinitsystem -c gpinitsystem_test