How to install AWS System Manager (SSM) Agent on Linux Distributions?

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In this blog post, we will discuss how to install SSM agent on Linux distributions.

What is AWS SSM agent?

AWS System Manager Agent is a software that can be installed and configured on an Amazon EC2 instance, On-premises server or a Virtual Machine. This agents can help System Manager to update, configure and manage these resources. 

This agent processes request from System Manager and execute them as specified in the request with their nodes. Also, sends the execution status back to the System Manager by using Amazon Message Delivery Service.

Let us going to install SSM agent.

Amazon Linux

SSM Agent is installed, by default, on Amazon Linux Base Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) dated 2017.09 and later. SSM Agent is also installed, by default, on Amazon Linux 2 AMIs and Amazon Linux 2 ECS-Optimized Base AMIs. You must manually install SSM Agent on other versions of Linux.

Managed nodes created from an Amazon Linux AMI that use a proxy must run a current version of the Python requests module in order to support Patch Manager operations.


Amazon Linux 2

SSM Agent is installed, by default, on Amazon Linux Base Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) dated 2017.09 and later. SSM Agent is also installed, by default, on Amazon Linux 2 AMIs and Amazon Linux 2 ECS-Optimized Base AMIs. You must manually install SSM Agent on other versions of Linux.


CentOS

Ensure that either Python 2 or Python 3 is installed on your CentOS instance. This is required in order for SSM Agent to work properly.

CentOS 6.X


CentOS 7.x


CentOS 8.x

Debian 9.x and 10.x

SSM agent is not installed by default, we need to install it manually.


RHEL

SSM agent is not installed by default, we need to install it manually.

RHEL 6.x


RHEL 7.x


RHEL 8.x


Ubuntu

SSM Agent is installed, by default, on Ubuntu Server 20.04, 18.04, and 16.04 LTS 64-bit AMIs with an identifier of 20180627 or later.

Ubuntu 14.x


Ubuntu 16.x


Ubuntu 18.x and 20.x

For Windows Installation, please find the URL below.



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