Manual Ubuntu 16.04 InstallΒΆ
Spin up a new EC2 machine (Ubuntu 16.04), it should have a security group with ssh access (your IP/32 is a good rule), http and https open to the world (If that is what you want).
If you want to use S3 [0] and SQS [1], which I recommend, then you should create a bucket for your documents and a queue for background jobs. You will also need an IAM role that has the correct permissions for these resources (the easiest thing to do is grant all access, but up to the user). Attach the IAM role either during the creation of the EC2 machine, or after the machine has booted.
Once the machine is up, run:
git clone https://github.com/bgroff/kala-app.git
sudo mv kala-app/ /srv/
sudo sh /srv/kala-app/deploy/provision/ubuntu.sh
This should get you a running instance of the application, with the two test users described in the README.
You can then edit the deployment environment variables to setup your AWS account information
sudo nano /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/{your-ec2-instance-hostname}.ini
Then you can restart uwsgi:
sudo systemctl restart uwsgi
If everything went right, you should now be able to use S3 for document storage.
It is recommended to add an SSL certificate for your install. You can get a free certificate from letsencrypt. Directions are available from the Digital Ocean page [2].