SQL Server configuration using mssql-conf utility In the following screenshot, we can note down the following steps: SQL Server set up also guides you for the next step. You can also view user id along with key source URL:Įnter “y”, and it installs SQL Server Linux on Amazon EC2 instance. Once the package is downloaded, it imports the public repository GPG key from the Microsoft repository URL but requires user confirmation to proceed. We can see the dependency package, architecture, version and repository for it:Įnter “y”, and it downloads the remaining packages. In this screenshot, we can see that it needs to download 186 MB file for other dependencies. It automatically resolves a few dependencies. It also shows the size of each package and time spent in downloading the package:

It checks for the dependencies and gives you information about the packages it needs to download. Once the instance is up, launch Putty and connect to EC2 instance using public IP address and private key (.PPK file):Īfter connected to EC2 instance, it is a best practice to update all packages to the latest versions. It also performs the 2/2 status check that it performed earlier during instance creation: It takes some time to start the Amazon EC2 instance. It asks confirmation before starting the EC2 instance. Click on Actions | Instance State | Start for starting this instance: It only shows the running instances in the dashboard.Ĭlick on Running instances, and it shows an instance in the stopped status:ĮC2 instance should be in running status so that we can install SQL Server Linux on it. We stopped our EC2 instance created earlier. It opens the EC2 dashboard, as shown below: Login in AWS web console and launch EC2 from the services. In this article, we will install SQL Server Linux 2017 on this EC2 instance and connect with the SQL database through SQLCMD command-line tools.Ĭonfigured Security groups (firewall) for the EC2 instance It is our first virtual server in the Amazon cloud. In the previous article, Installation of SQL Server Linux on Red Hat in Amazon EC2 instances, we explored the preparation of Amazon EC2 instance with the Red Hat Linux operating system installation.

This article installs SQL Server on Linux on the Amazon EC2 instance with Red Hat OS prepared in the earlier article.

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