Create a Lightsail instance and install the CodeDeploy agent

Question

While following this tutorial, I created the instance with the desired script. Yet, when I ssh in and run

sudo service codedeploy-agent status

I'm getting the error

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status codedeploy-agent.service

Unit codedeploy-agent.service could not be found.

What can be done to fix it?

Answer 1

If I created the instance using Amazon Linux 2, ssh in and run

sudo service codedeploy-agent status

then would get the error

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status codedeploy-agent.service

Unit codedeploy-agent.service could not be found.

In order to fix it, created a new instance but this time made sure to be using Amazon Linux (as opposed to Amazon Linux 2).

Now, when running

sudo service codedeploy-agent status

I get the following result

The AWS CodeDeploy agent is running as PID 2780

P.S. - if you still want to use Amazon Linux 2 instead, consider reading this question and it's answer.