How to install Mule in AWS

This was an interesting challenge and one where I couldn’t find step by step instructions on Google or the Mulesoft website. So I ended up trying this myself and hope this is useful for others.

Prerequisite:
– Access to AWS EC2 environment.

Step 1: Create a new instance

Launch a new Ubuntu instance.

Choose at least t2.small or above because you need at least 2Gb of RAM.
Then click Review and Launch >> Launch

If you choose t2.micro or anything with less RAM, you’ll get this error:

ie Mulesoft There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue. error’=Cannot allocate memory’

Step 2: Connect to your instance.

You will have had to create some keys to allow you to connect to the instance via command line. See this link here if you need a refresher. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

To connect, use this format

ssh -i /path/to/cert  ubuntu@ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com

The command I used to connect to my instance was:

ssh -i muledemo.pem ubuntu@ec2-52-20-212-212.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Now you are in a basic Ubuntu environment where you can now start to install Mule.

Step 3: Install Mule

mkdir mule 
cd mule
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/70aaf9be67f9bf88e5e78adcd7d6aa34/mule-ee-distribution-standalone-3.7.1.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf mule-ee-distribution-standalone-3.7.1.tar.gz

This translates to:

• create a directory
• go into the directory
• download Mule EE
• extract the file

Now we can try and start it by running:

./mule-enterprise-standalone-3.7.1/bin/mule

You should get this error:

ie Mule: ERROR: java could not be found. PLease install the JRE or JDK
This is a good sign.

Step 4: Install Java

To get rid of this we need to install Java. Run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Now if you run

java -version

you should get:

Now try to run mule again by typing

./mule-enterprise-standalone-3.7.1/bin/mule

and you should get:

Congratulations! You now have Mule up and running.