🚧Setup WSL2 Environment for Windows

Pre-requisite

  • OS: Windows 11

  • graphics cards installer compatible on your device

Steps

  1. Install WSL

    wsl --install

  2. Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from Microsoft store

    Note: This will be the default terminal that we will be using so make sure all the commands are run under Ubuntu terminal

  3. Set SSH key

    ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com" 1. When you're prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key," press Enter. This accepts the default file location. 2. At the prompt, type a secure passphrase. go to the file directory where the ssh key is saved /c/Users/you/.ssh/id_algorithm Go to your Github settings > SSH Key & GPG Keys then Paste the generated key under .ssh folder

  4. Install Remote-wsl on your VSCode extension

  5. run this command sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

  6. Clone Project repository using SSH

  7. On your root folder run this command

    sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose^^

  8. Install Docker inside wsl

  9. Install AWS CLI

  10. Configure aws aws configure --profile identifi_qa access key: AKIAR73M5IQAJDI7TGPN secret key: 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 region: ap-southeast-1 output: json

  11. Run aws login 

    aws ecr get-login-password --region ap-southeast-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 137130492928.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com

  12. run the following on your terminal Note: If you may encounter some unknown commands all you have to to is install it

    sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}
    sudo apt-get update -y
    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
    sudo add-apt-repository \
   "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
   $(lsb_release -cs) \
   stable"
    sudo apt-get update -y
    sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce
    sudo e2fsck /dev/sdb -y
    sudo e2fsck /dev/sdb -p
    wsl --shutdown
    wsl.exe -l -v
    wsl --set-default ubuntu
    ls -lad /tmp
    sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
    aws ecr get-login-password --region ap-southeast-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 137130492928.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
    sudo groupadd docker
    sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}
    su -s ${USER}
    docker run hello-world
    aws ecr get-login-password --region ap-southeast-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 137130492928.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
    sudo docker-compose up -d

    Open the test folder directory of the project and install the following packages 

    npm install
    sudo apt install libgtk-3-0
    sudo apt-get install libatk1.0-0
    sudo apt-get install -y libgbm-dev
    sudo apt install xvfb

  13. sudo apt-get install curl
    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash
    command -v nvm

  14. Install required node version use in the project then check node and npm version

    node -v 
    npm --version

  15. Run Docker command docker-compose down : to stop running the containers docker-compose pull : to pull the latest docker image of the project docker-compose up -d : to start and run the application docker container ls : to verify if the docker container is running

  16. Check if you run able to run the test by running npx cypress open

  17. Visit on your browser the project application: localhost:9000/login

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