Running TeamCity Stack in AWS
The Run on AWS option for TeamCity available on the JetBrains site lets you run the TeamCity stack in AWS using the official CloudFormation template.
Stack Overview
The stack includes:
a CoreOS EC2 instance with the official TeamCity server of the specified version from Docker Hub
one TeamCity Build Agent running as a separate container on the same instance.
an RDS MySQL database
The official Docker images with the TeamCity server and build agent are used.
The server and the database are placed in their own VPC which is completely secure. The database allows only internal connections within the VPC and its possible to connect to the Server via HTTP(s) or SSH only .
Prerequisites
To create a TeamCity stack and connect to it, you will need
an http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html in the same region as the TeamCity stack
an installed SSH client to connect to the TeamCity server and view the logs
Using Template
1. Specify the parameters provided by the template:
Setting | Description |
|---|---|
Name | The name for your TeamCity server, set to test by default |
EC2 instance Type | Specify https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ for the TeamCity server EC2 instance |
EC2 KeyPair | The existing EC2 KeyPair for SSH access to the TeamCity Server EC2 instance |
TeamCity Version | By default, the template will create a TeamCity installation of the latest version. You can also specify the exact version number here, e.g. 2017.1.5, 2017.2 |
RDS Database Instance Type | Specify the type for the RDS MySQL instance used as the external database for TeamCity |
TeamCity Database Password | Specify any password for the TeamCity database |
2. Click Next. (Optional) In the dialog that appears, provide additional options if required.
3. Click Next, review your settings and click Сreate. No other actions are required. It takes about 15 minutes for the template to deploy the whole stack. Once the deployment is ready, you will see the TeamCity server endpoint in the Output section which points you to your TeamCity installation.
4. Access the TeamCity instance from your browser, create the administrators account and start using your TeamCity.
Connecting to server and viewing logs
To connect to the servers console, you need to use your instance private key:
To see the teamcity-agent.log or teamcity-server.log , just run thedocker logs command for the desired container, e.g. for the server logs, run
Next Steps
Once you have TeamCity up and running, consider the following steps:
Use the Setting Up TeamCity for Amazon EC2 to run and connect more build agents to your server
Configure TeamCity to use the S3 bucket as Configuring Artifacts Storage.
Upgrading TeamCity in AWS
To update TeamCity started from the CloudFormation template:
In the AWS CloudFormation console, from the list of stacks, select the running TeamCity stack and u se the http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-direct.html.
You will be redirected to the Select Template page: use the Current Template option and click Next.
On the template settings page, enter the TeamCity version you want to update to. Note that if you previously used the TeamCity version tagged latest, you will now need to provide the actual version number as the "latest" tag can be applied to the server only once.
Click Next, provide additional options if required, review the new settings and click Update. Once the Update is complete, access the TeamCity Web UI from the browser.
If required, provide the maintenance token: to obtain it, you need to connect to your server instance, get the TeamCity server log as described above, and retrieve the maintenance token.
Wait for the server to upgrade, log in to the TeamCity server and wait for the agent to upgrade and connect to the server.