User guide

Chapter 6. Launching clustered JBoss Enterprise Application

Platform instances

In this example clustered JBoss Enterprise Application Platform instances are deployed with a simple

JMS sender and receiver application.

To support the application, a JBoss Enterprise Web Server instance is deployed as a proxy and a

Relational Database Service instance is deployed to provide the required MySQL DBMS.

6.1. Launch clustered Enterprise Application Platform

Procedure 6.1. Launch clust ered EAP

1. Create a Relational Database Service instance.

2. Create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

3. Launch a JBoss Enterprise Web Server instance to serve as a mod_cluster proxy and a NAT

instance for the VPC.

4. Configure VPC routing tables for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) nodes.

5. Launch JBoss Enterprise Application Platform nodes.

6. Verify the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform cluster.

Detailed instructions on each of these steps are contained in the following sections.

6.2. Create a Relational Database Service database instance

Relational Database Service (RDS) is a convenient service provided by Amazon to easily deploy and

manage an RDBMS with failover, back-up and restore capabilities. Currently several versions of Oracle

and MySQL database servers are available. T his example uses the MySQL database server but JBoss

Enterprise Application Platform also supports Oracle Database.

1. Go to the RDS tab in the AWS console.

2. Subscribe to the service if needed.

3. Click on "Launch DB instance".

4. Click on MySQL

a. Select a version (for example 5.5.12).

b. Select small instance.

c. Ensure Multi-AZ Deployment and Auto upgrade are off.

d. Set Storage to 5GB.

e. Choose the database administrator's username and password.

f. On the next screen choose a database name to be created with the instance.

g. On the next screen you can disable back-up and maintenance.

h. Confirm your settings.

The database should initialize and be ready for use after a few minutes.

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