pdfRest PDF Forms Pro Self-Hosted API

For this process you’ll need to have already subscribed to the pdfRest PDF Forms Pro Self-Hosted API product on our AWS Marketplace page.

These steps assume that you have successfully launched an instance by following the steps found above for Launching an instance.

Follow these instructions to manually set up Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) for use with your self hosted stack. Note that while we provide instructions for manually setting this up, this is best deployed as part of a cloudformation stack. Please contact us for assistance or for cloudformation template examples.

1. Create an Application Load Balancer.
2. Copy the Public DNS of the load balancer. It will be used in the steps to follow.
3. Create instance from desired AMI by following the steps in Launching an instance and Setting up an instance.
4. Create your Security Groups.
5. Create your EFS File System.
6. Mount the file system on the EC2 instance.
7. Modify the /etc/fstab configuration file.
8. Modify the permissions on the directory:

chown ec2-user:ec2-user /mnt/efs
chmod 777 /mnt/efs

9. When running the docker container, use -v to bind the mounted directory to /opt/datalogics/public.
   For example: -v /mnt/efs:/opt/datalogics/public

Follow these instructions to manually set up autobalanced load scaling infrastructure for use with your self hosted stack. Note that while we provide instructions for manually setting this up, this is best deployed as part of a cloudformation stack. Please contact us for assistance or for cloudformation template examples.

1. Create a new AMI Snapshot from the EC2 dashboard.
2. Create a new launch template.
3. Create a new target group.
4. Create a new autoscaling group.
5. Add a load balancer to your autoscaling group.
6. Create new listener rules.
7. Create new HTTPS listener rules.
8. Create new security group rules.

If you are running pdfRest Forms Pro Self-Hosted with another pdfRest Self-Hosted product, follow these steps to set up a shared EFS volume.