So far we have connected to our EC2 instance with the terminal on Linux and Putty on Windows.  There is another option that you can perform and it only requires that you have a browser.  You must have an Amazon Linux Version 2 instance for this to work, at least that's what I think.

On the instances page on the AWS console click on the "Connect" button while the instance is selected

The most important thing for most modern dynamic application these day is choosing a database to store your data.  If you are on a Windows environment then you use SQL Server database that is a fine choice. But if you are on Linux MySQL is a great choice also.  In this post we are going to go through how to install MySQL server on our Fedora development machine.

Here are the steps to install MySQL on Fedora Linux:

1. First we need to add the MySQL repository to our machine by tying in the following command in the terminal

sudo dnf -y install https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-fc32-1.noarch

 On the previous post we connect to our EC2 instance using SSH on Linux now I will show you how to connect to the EC2 instance using Putty on Windows

Here are the steps to connect to our EC2 instance on Windows:

1. Download and install Putty from here 

2. Open PuttyGen from the start menu, and select your .pem file and convert it to a .pkk file

Once it's open select "File", then "Load private key", then select your .pem file

In this post we going to get our development environment with NodeJS, VSCode and Postman

The Urls are the following, if you are developing in Linux you should install the Linux version.  All these tools are cross platform so you can develop in either Windows, Linux or MacOS:

.NET Core: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Node.JS: https://nodejs.org/en/

Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads

Postman: https://www.postman.com/downloads/

For .NET Core make sure you download the "recommended" version and not the preview version. Also with NodeJS, usually it has LTS status.

Installing .NET Core SDK and NodeJS On Fedora

In order to install .NET Core SDK on Fedora open the terminal and type in the following

sudo dnf install dotnet-sdk-3.1 -y

The -y tells Fedora to skip the y/N prompt and just go on with the install

Once the SDK is installed you can verify the install with the command dotnet --version

 In the previous post we created an EC2 instance in AWS in this post we are going to connect to that instance on a Linux workstation or server with SSH.

Here are the steps to connect to the EC2 instance using SSH on Linux, this will also work on a Mac as well:

1. Navigate to the folder that contains the key pair file that you've downloaded in the previous post, I store it in the folder /aws/EC2/KeyPair/ folder , so I would type cd /aws/EC2/KeyPair then type ls to see the file in the folder

The first thing we want to do is set up the Google Chrome browser on a Linux instance, I've decided to use a virtualized Fedora workstation as my development machine.  You can use Windows if you want, it would be a lot easier.  It doesn't really matter because Asp.Net Core works on Linux as well.  Google Chrome has the best development tools and it also has an extension call Postman.  Although you want to install the standalone version of Postman.  Here are the steps to install Google Chrome on Linux

I wrote a post on how to set Fedora as your development machine here

1. Navigate to the URL https://www.google.com/chrome/

2. Click on "Download Chrome"

 In the next month or so I will start a series of blog posts that will take you from scratch on how to deploy an Angular application that makes API calls from an Asp.Net Core web api backend using Entity Framework Core as it's ORM and MySQL as the database.  Most tutorials would end there, but I will take it further and deploy the application on AWS so that it lives on the world wide web.  Since I don't want to start from scratch I will be modernizing the ACME bank application that I've started with AngularJS.  If you are working with AngularJS you know that it's time to update and upgrade because it's at its' last legs and Angular is the future.  Some say the journey is more rewarding than the destination.  I hope, you will join me on this journey.  Thank you, here is a diagram of what's to come

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