Install vHSM on AWS

Prerequisites

• To install vHSM you need an enterprise licence. Contact support to get an enterprise licence.

• To install vHSM as a production server you need to create a `config.json` file. For more information, see Configuration.

• Create a EC2 instance and ensure that the Instance type is one of these supported configurations.

• Ensure your EC2 instance has proper IAM permissions to pull images from ECR.

• Make sure your EC2 instance's security group allows communication on the required ports.

• Depending on your setup, you may need to expose specific ports for accessing services within the container.

Installing vHSM using AWS marketplace

You can deploy vHSM on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the official enclaive AWS Marketplace offering of vHSM.

To install and run the vhsm-aws container from Amazon ECR on your EC2 instance, follow these steps:

1. Connect to your EC2 instance.

Install and configure Docker on your EC2 instance.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker.io

2. Install AWS CLI on your EC2 instance.

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

3. Configure AWS credentials.

aws configure

where:

• AWS Access Key ID: (Get from your AWS IAM)

• AWS Secret Access Key: (Get from your AWS IAM)

• Default region name: us-east-1 (or the region you are using)

• Default output format: Leave it as None

4. Authenticate Docker to Amazon ECR registry where the vhsm container image is stored.

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 709825985650.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

5. Pull the vhsm-aws image from ECR.

For example, to pull the image tagged as 1.4.1-0:

docker pull 709825985650.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/enclaive/vhsm:1.4.1-0