Launching a MarkLogic AMI outside of CloudFormation

This section describes the minimum steps you need to take should you insist on running MarkLogic without either CloudFormation or your own or third party cloud management tools. These steps do not enable the Managed Cluster feature and are not recommended.

• Launch an EC2 AMI, either one we provide in MarketPlace or your own AMI on which you have pre-installed MarkLogic, following the OS-specific installation instructions.

• Create a Key Pair, as described in Creating a Key Pair. You will need the Key Pair name to launch the instance.

• Create a Security Group that opens at port 22 (for ssh) and ports (8000-8002) for the Admin API. You may also need to configure the Security Group to open additional ports for your own applications or for foreign clusters.

• Create an EBS volume for your data and attach it to the logical device, /dev/sdf. On startup, MarkLogic will detect this volume (or wait for it to be attached) then create a filesystem and mount it as /var/opt/MarkLogic. The MarkLogic AMI will have the data volume pre-defined and it must be associated with /dev/sdf.

When your instance is started, you can browse to the Admin Interface on your host’s port 8001. Log in with user “admin”; the password is set to the value of the instance ID.