Autoscaling EC2

This is the guideline an autoscaling deployment of MetaDefender. In this example, besides the MetaDefender EC2 instance, additional resources are being generated and set up.

Prerequisites and Requirements

AWS knowledge: This guide assumes familiarity with AWS services.

AWS account: needs permission to create AWS resources listed in Autoscaling EC2

Tools to be used: Terraform

System/OS requirements

For OS, database type, 3rd party dependencies and storage requirements on Windows installations, please refer to the Microsoft Windows Deployments section of the Recommended System Configuration page.

For OS, database type, 3rd party dependencies and storage requirements on Linux installations, please refer to the Linux Deployments section of the Recommended System Configuration page.

Deploy using Terraform

• Locally clone the metadefender-csp repository and go to AWS/autoscaling-group

git clone git@github.com:OPSWAT/metadefender-csp.git

cd AWS/autoscaling-group

• Modify terraform.tfvars with the desired options

# General variables

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MD_ENV_NAME             = "metadefender"

MD_REGION               = "eu-central-1"

#ACCESS_KEY_ID          = "<ACCESS_KEY_ID>"

#SECRET_ACCESS_KEY      = "<SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>"

MD_VPC_CIDR             = "192.168.0.0/16"

PUBLIC_ENVIRONMENT      = true

WARM_POOL_ENABLED       = true

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# MetaDefender Core variables

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DEPLOY_CORE             = "false"

CORE_PRODUCT_ID       = "ani6v4vb5z4t87cymrfg3m451" # For Windows it is "9s8powksm1cj7fuafdnv0sfj9"

CORE_INSTANCE_TYPE      = "c5.2xlarge"

LICENSE_KEY_CORE        = ""

CORE_PWD                = "admin"

CORE_PORT               = 8008

• Run terraform apply and check the resource to be create, after that enter "y"

terraform apply