Ready Thing

Ready Thing is a simple shell script to create "productivity suites" with user-friendly administration for websites, emails, file sharing and collaboration.

Created for AWS EC2 Amazon Linux. Documentation is quite rough, sorry! I'm happy to provide any support possible.

• Administration: Ajenti V
• Web: NGINX or Apache2
• Mail: RainLoop
• Filesharing & Collaboration: NextCloud
• 99.999999999% durability with Amazon S3

What this script does

• Create S3 Bucket Label
• Setup IAM Stuff
  • Roles, Policies & Instance Profile for EC2 to communicate with S3
• Create EC2 Instance
  • Generate User Data (Initialization script)
    • Install Ajenti (v1 for now - maybe v2 in future)
    • Install S3fs and mount
    • Install MariaDB
    • Install PHP7 (sort of supported by Ajenti with hax)
    • Install NextCloud (file sharing and collaboration)
    • Install RainLoop (mail)
    • More to come...

To do

• Create initialization routine for fresh AWS account
• Un-hardcode more stuff
  • Move variables from getopts to "server.conf" with -c GETOPTS to specify
• Userdata connect to Chef server because:
  • Bash script should be ported to recipes & cookbook
• Add more checks and get rid of weird workarounds (eg sleeps)
• LetsEncrypt SSL w/ NGINX
• Monitoring
• Mail with SES
• Integrate SES with sendmail OR
• Integrate Exim with SES

Notes / FAQ

• If using a chef server, it must already be configured

Resources used

• Markdown Cheat Sheet
• Bootstrapping Chef for Autoscaling instances
• Chef Client.rb
• EC2 Best Practices
• Writing IAM Policies to grant specific folder access on Amazon S3 buckets
• IAM Roles for EC2