This is a very rough guide to running this in the cloud on AWS. To do this you'll need a valid AWS account (and following this you will incur a small charge so need valid payment info).
This is largely intended for those who have some familiarity with AWS & EC2, if you don't know what either of those terms represent, then this isn't for you.
Start an ec2 instance, make sure you pick t2-micro (free tier) as the instance
type. We do this so that it's totally free while setting everything up, once
we're good to go, we'll scale this instance up to handle more sessions.
I picked Amazon Linux 2 AMI Kernel 5.10 as my AMI. Only port I opened was 22 to be able to ssh in. Everything else was default.
If you don't already have a keypair set up, you'll be prompted to create one. Make sure you save the pem file as you'll need it after.
ssh into the instance:
ssh -i /path/to/your/pem/file ec2-user@<your public ip>where /path/to/your/pem/file is the path to the PEM file on your machine,
and <your public ip> is your instance's public IP (can find this in the
EC2 dashboard).
Install npm: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-guide/setting-up-node-on-ec2-instance.html
Install dependencies:
npm iInstall dependencies for puppeteer (note: this may have been accomplished in the previous step):
sudo yum install alsa-lib.x86_64 atk.x86_64 cups-libs.x86_64 gtk3.x86_64 ipa-gothic-fonts libXcomposite.x86_64 libXcursor.x86_64 libXdamage.x86_64 libXext.x86_64 libXi.x86_64 libXrandr.x86_64 libXScrnSaver.x86_64 libXtst.x86_64 pango.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic xorg-x11-fonts-misc xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-utilsInstall git:
sudo yum install gitClone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/bprussell/VstheWorld.gitTry the script with 2 sessions. Start a game in streamer mode, and run:
npm start ABCD -- --sessions 2Verify that script executes and 2 audience are added.
Follow the same instructions and spin up a 2nd instance & set up the same way.
Once both instances are able to get a couple audience members in, move to the next step.
Stop both instances in the EC2 dashboard. Once stopped, upgrade them to a beefier machine. Instructions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-resize.html
I picked t2.2xlarge as the type to upgrade to. It has 8 VCPUS, 32 GiB Memory (at the time of writing)
Important: this instance will cost money. Current pricing can be found at: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
EC2 instances are billed by the hour.
Spin up both instances. SSH into them again and run the script with the room code, this time using 250 sessions. Run this script:
npm start ABCD -- --sessions 250Since you're running two instances, you'll need to do this on both instances. Verify you get up to 500 audience members (250 x 2).
Once that happens, background the VstheWorld.js script by hitting ctrl+z.
This leaves it running with the 250 audience members. Now start up the script
again to add another 250, and repeat on the other instance.
Should end up at 1000 audience members and bleep bloop, Achievement Unlocked.
Note that I found when I did 500 sessions and ran the script once it didn't work as well as 250 run twice. I also couldn't get all 1000 on one instance (it topped out around 750 or so).
I did experiment a little bit with t2.micro's (which are free tier). I found they topped out around 50-75 audience members (50 was no problem, 75 got there, but was really slow). So in theory, you could spin up 20 t2.micro's, install all the things & whatnot, and ssh into 20 different instances, each with a session count of 50, and hit 1000 that way. As long as you're under the monthly free hours (currently 750) you should remain free of charge.
You could also in theory set up one t2.micro exactly as you want, and then create an AMI from that instance, and then spin up 19 more from that AMI thereby saving you some setup time/hassle.
I didn't do that though, so I leave that as an exercise for the reader. :)