AWS EC2 user data script to start beanstalkd instance (Amazon Linux instance type)

beanstalkd-ec2-user-data-script.sh

#!/bin/bash -ex
set -e -x

# Log output
exec > >(tee /var/log/user-data.log|logger -t user-data -s 2>/dev/console) 2>&1

# Update yum first
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y 
yum update -y

# Download /etc/default/beanstalkd
curl -J -O https://gist.github.com/phaitour/6482469/download
tar -zxvf *.tar.gz
/bin/cp -f gist*/beanstalkd /etc/default/ 
ln -s /etc/default/beanstalkd /etc/beanstalkd.conf 
rm -rf gist*

# Download /etc/init/beanstalkd.conf
curl -J -O https://gist.github.com/phaitour/6482467/download
tar -zxvf *.tar.gz
/bin/cp -f gist*/beanstalkd.conf /etc/init/
rm -rf gist*

# Create beanstalkd user
/usr/sbin/useradd -c "beanstalk user" -s /bin/false -r -m -d /var/lib/beanstalkd/ beanstalkd

# Compile latest version of beanstalkd
wget https://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/archive/v1.9.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v1.9.tar.gz
cd beanstalkd-1.9
make
mv beanstalkd /usr/bin/beanstalkd-1.9
cd /usr/bin
rm -rf beanstalkd
ln -s beanstalkd-1.9 beanstalkd

# Start beanstalks with upstart
initctl reload-configuration
initctl start beanstalkd