Commit 95993075 by Sef Kloninger

readme: document post-bringup manual commands

parent e44bbec2
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Details on how to build the stack using Ansible are available below.
### Post Bringup Manual Commands
Unfortunately there is some infrastructure that we need that is currently not supported
by CloudFormation. So once your stack is created by CloudFormation you need to run
a few manual commands to fill in those gaps.
This requires that you've installed the command line utilities for [ElastiCache][cachecli]
and [EC2][ec2cli]. Note that we requrire at least version 1.8 of the ElastiCache CLI due
to some newer commands that we rely on.
[cachecli]: http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/2310261897259567
[ec2cli]: http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351
At the end of the CloudFormation run you should check the "Outputs" tab in
Amazon UI and that will have the commands you need to run. This screenshot
shows what that output looks like.
![Amazon CloudFormation Output Screenshot](cfn-output-example.png)
### Connecting to Hosts in the Stack
Because the reference architecture makes use of an Amazon VPC, you will not be able
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```
Host *.us-west-1.compute-internal
ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p vpc-00000000-jumpbox
IdentityFile /path/to/aws/key.pem
ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p vpc-us-west-1-jumpbox
ForwardAgent yes
User ubuntu
Host vpc-00000000-jumpbox
HostName 54.236.224.226
IdentityFile /path/to/aws/key.pem
Host vpc-us-west-1-jumpbox
HostName 54.236.202.101
ForwardAgent yes
User ubuntu
```
This assumes that you only have one VPC in the ```us-west-1``` region
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