Synapse Deployment Instructions

Check out and build code

Create Beanstalk Environments (Skip this section if using existing Environments.)

log in to AWS

http://aws.amazon.com/console/

as platform@sagebase.org (get the password frome someone in the Platform department).

Click "Launch New Environment"

set environment name, e.g. "Prod-Auth"

choose or upload an "application version" (which is a WAR file)

Default AMI (32 bit Linux server running Tomcat v 7)

Instance type: t1.micro

Key Pair: PlatformKeyPairEast

email: platform@sagebase.org

Create two more, so that there is one for Auth services, one for Repo services, and one for SynapseWeb

Create Host Name

Sign in to GoDaddy, select sagebase.org,  and launch Domain Manager. 

Create synapse-prod (.sagebase.org) and point it to prod-synapseweb.elasticbeanstalk.com

Ditto for auth-prod and reposvc-prod

Create MySQL database

If necessary, create a new schema in the AWS RDS, e.g. using MySQL Workbench.

The schema name, for example, might be 'prodRepositoryDb'

Configure Environments

For the authentication service:

Click on 'edit configuration' in the Beanstalk UI.

For 'HTTPS Listener port' choose '443'. 

For 'SSL Cert' choose arn:aws:iam::325565585839:server-certificate/SynapseCert

Click on 'container.' In the JVM Command Line Options, put

-Dorg.sagebionetworks.crowdUrl=https://crowd.sagebase.org:8443

For the Repo service:

For 'HTTPS Listener port' choose '443'. 

For 'SSL Cert' choose arn:aws:iam::325565585839:server-certificate/SynapseCert

Click on 'container' and enter the following:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: <<the appropriate key ID>>
AWS_SECRET_KEY: <<the appropriate secret key>>
JDBC_CONNECTION_STRING: jdbc:mysql://repo.c5sxx7pot9i8.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com/prodRepositoryDb

      where 'prodRepositoryDb' is replaced by the schema name chosen above.
PARAM1: <<user in the DB schema>>
PARAM2: <<user password>>
PARAM3: <<???>>
PARAM4: <<???>>

For the Synapse Web Application:

For 'HTTPS Listener port' choose '443'. 

For 'SSL Cert' choose arn:aws:iam::325565585839:server-certificate/SynapseCert

Set up Crowd

If necessary, the instructions are here:

http://sagebionetworks.jira.com/wiki/display/PLFM/Setting+Up+Production+Crowd

Verify Deployment