How to prepare Amazon AMI Finmars CE
Guide how to prepare web-form only installation Ubuntu 24.04 for Amazon AMI

Getting Started
1) Request VM with Ubuntu 24.04 

 2) Install required packages 

 sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release ntp unzip zip make

wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

newgrp docker 

 3) Create Finmars Folder 

 sudo mkdir -p /opt/finmars

sudo chown $USER:$USER /opt/finmars 

 4) Clone Finmars Community Edition 

 cd /opt/finmars

git clone https://github.com/finmars-platform/finmars-community-edition.git . 

 5) Install requirements 

 pip install -r requirements.txt 

 6) Create systemd service 

 sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/init-setup.service Paste following content 

 [Unit]

Description=Finmars Initial Setup

After=network.target

[Service]

WorkingDirectory=/opt/finmars

ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m community_edition.main

Restart=no

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target 

 Reload Systemd 

 sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable init-setup

sudo systemctl start init-setup 

 7) Add crontab to execute step 

 sudo crontab -e 

 Add following line to crontab 

 * * * * * cd /opt/finmars && /usr/bin/python3 -m community_edition.services.setup 

 And Pull Finmars Images (for faster user insallation 

 docker pull postgres:13-alpine

docker pull rabbitmq:3.11.3-management

docker pull redis

docker pull certbot/certbot

docker pull nginx

docker pull quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:24.0.3

docker pull finmars/finmars-start-page:latest

docker pull finmars/finmars-excelgen:latest

docker pull finmars/finmars-pdfgen:latest 

 docker pull finmars/finmars-core:1.23.3-stable

docker pull finmars/finmars-workflow:1.23.0-stable

docker pull finmars/finmars-portal:1.23.0-stable

docker pull finmars/finmars-vue-portal:1.23.0-stable

docker pull finmars/finmars-workflow-portal:1.23.0-stable 

 When All done you need to remove keys and logout 

 sudo rm /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys

sudo rm /root/.ssh/authorized_keys 

 You need to logout and proceed to AWS ec2 console, you need to export AMI template to us-east-1 region Select your ec2 VM, go to Actions -> Images and Templates -> Create Image Then wait until your AMI Exported (Go to https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1 ) After that you need to make your AMI public - Edit AMI Permissions (right click on ami row) - AMI availability - Public Then go to AWS Marketplace and proceed with publishing new version Go to https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/management/products/server