namgivu / edx-start

intro

My effort to self-hosted deploy edx app to the cloud; and I'll note here ref. https://open.edx.org/get-started/get-started-self-managed/

0th effort

from home guide, we choose install from source

If you want a production-like installation for testing, use Native. we choose Native method which has Native deploy with Ubuntu 16.04

This will run MySQL, Memcache, Mongo, Nginx, and all of the Open edX services (LMS, Studio, Forums, ORA, etc) installation details

2nd effort

The Native method seems not working for me on Ubuntu 16 on EC2 machine. So I try another method Devstack as guided first here

Devstack: useful if you want to modify the Open edX code. For Hawthorn, devstack will be based on Docker. An unsupported pre-release is available. the guide then redirects us to a more-updated guide here installation details

server requirements

Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 (oraclejdk required). It may seem like other versions of Ubuntu will be fine, but they are not. Only 16.04 is known to work. Minimum 8GB of memory At least one 2.00GHz CPU or EC2 compute unit Minimum 25GB of free disk, 50GB recommended for production servers

For hosting in Amazon we recommend an t2.large with at least a 50Gb EBS volume, see https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing.

misc note

get help by asking here

edX is a massive open online course, aka MOOC, provider

what is LMS? Learning Management System

TODO what is ORA?