Automated Deployment of Crowd on EC2

[mark.stephens]

Our team is running the latest version of Crowd on EC2.  Currently we follow the steps below to deploy crowd to an EC2 server.

How can I automate steps 5 - 8?

1) Upload Crowd.tar.tz file to an EC2 instance

2) Unzip file

3) Configure Crowd HOME directory by modifying a Crowd configuration file

4) Start Crowd by running Crowd startup command

5) To configure Crowd, launch the new Crowd URL from a web browser, get the server ID from Crowd’s web page

6) Using the Server ID, login to Atlassian’s website to request a temporary license key.  To do so, you will need to answer a few questions from Atlassian on why you need a temporary Crowd license key

7) Back to Crowd’s web page, enter the new key generated by Atlassian

8) Launch a separate web browser, login to old Crowd app, export the latest database to a xml file, and then import the xml file into new Crowd via the new Crowd web page

9) Request a SSL Cert to allow https access. 

10) Request Crowd Domain changes

11) Transfer existing Crowd license from old Crowd to the new Crowd

[Timothy Chin]

You need to run your scripts to be able to do that. You can try Selenium or any of it's alternatives.