Running Fabric3 with ZeroMQ on EC2

Requierments

EC2 - Account

Account - Secret Access Key

Account - Access Key

Amazon S3 Bucket name ( no setup requiered but still needed, watch out for costs)

Oracle/Sun JRE (tested with latest 1.6.0_27)

3 Micro Instances

Setup of the instances

I used the Amazon 32-Bit AMI (amzn-ami-2011.02.1.i386-ebs (ami-47cefa33) : http://aws.amazon.com/amis/4157).

Download fabric3 Standalone and the ZeroMQ Profile (from http://fabric3.org/downloads.html)

Now we need to configure JGroups to enable group communication over tcp since ec2 dosent support multicasts.

Download fabric3 Standalone and the ZeroMQ Profile (from http://fabric3.org/downloads.html)

Now we need to configure JGroups to enable group communication over tcp since ec2 dosent support multicasts.