AWS UniLink deployment guide

The following is the guide for deploying UniLink on AWS using the marketplace listing. Use our helm charts with AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS) for a cloud-native deployment.

Prerequisites

• AWS account

Install UniLink via AWS marketplace AMI

1. Go to UniLink AWS marketplace listing and click on subscribe.

2. Sign in with your AWS account.

3. Click on Continue to Configuration.

4. Select the latest version in Software Version and pick your aws region. Click Continue to Launch.

5. Review the launch configuration. Leave the Choose Action field with the default value Launch from Website. Choose a VPC and subnet as per your AWS region preference.

6. Scroll down to the security group section and click create Create New Based On Seller Settings.

7. Save the new security group and choose it after creation.

8. Pick a key pair you already have or create a new one in the region you are deploying. Click Launch.

9. AWS should now display a congratulations screen confirming that UniLink instance is launched successfully. Click on the EC2 Console link.

10. Wait for a few minutes to let the instance come up.

11. Select the instance and copy the public IP.

12. Visit http://<your-public-ip>:3000. This should bring up the UniLink UI. Congratulations. Woot ! Woot !!

Configuring UniLink

To configure UniLink, we need to ssh into the instance. We will use AWS console connect for this.

1. Select the instance and click on Connect.

2. Change the username from root to ubuntu and click Connect.

3. Switch to the chatwoot user and configure the necessary environment variables. Refer Environment variables document for the complete list.

sudo -i -u chatwoot
cd chatwoot
vi .env

6. Also, it is recommended to configure a proxy server like Nginx and set up SSL. Make sure to modify the security group created in step 6 accordingly.

Updating the instance

Please follow the UniLink update process in the standard Linux VM setup.