Updated Tutorial: Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with EBS (now supports AppArmor)

The following tutorial (originally published in Aug ‘08) has been extensively updated today:

Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store (EBS)

This tutorial explains one approach to using Amazon’s persistent storage mechanism as the backing for a database and includes pointers on how to create snapshots for secure backups.

The primary goal of the updates was to put forth an approach which works not only on the current Ubuntu and Debian AMIs published on https://alestic.com but also with new AMIs which use the Canonical kernels as well as the new Ubuntu AMIs published by Canonical.

Ubuntu AMIs which use the new Canonical kernels may have AppArmor enabled. The original tutorial required workarounds to function in this environment, but the new tutorial keeps files right where MySQL and the AppArmor configuration expect them to be, while at the same time keeping them on the EBS volume.

There is also a plethora of “sudo"s spread around the tutorial so that it will work if you connected to your instance using a normal, non-root user, as is required by the Canonical AMIs.

I have tested these instructions on a few different AMIs. Please let me know if you run into any problems or have suggestions for improvement.

=> Go read the tutorial