Download and install the Agent

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First, connect to your instance. For more information, see Connect to Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. If you have trouble connecting, see Troubleshooting Connecting to Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Next, install the agent using one of the following methods.

To set up the agent from the Amazon Linux repositories

This method works only for Amazon Linux instances. Use the following command:
```
sudo yum install –y aws-kinesis-agent
        
```
Agent v 2.0.0 or later is installed on computers with operating system Amazon Linux 2 (AL2). This agent version requires Java 1.8 or later. If required Java version is not yet present, the agent installation process installs it. For more information regarding Amazon Linux 2 see https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/.
To set up the agent from the Amazon S3 repository

This method works for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as Amazon Linux 2 instances because it installs the agent from the publicly available repository. Use the following command to download and install the latest version of the agent version 2.x.x:
```
sudo yum install –y https://s3.amazonaws.com/streaming-data-agent/aws-kinesis-agent-latest.amzn2.noarch.rpm
                
```
To install a specific version of the agent, specify the version number in the command. For example, the following command installs agent v 2.0.1.
```
sudo yum install –y https://streaming-data-agent.s3.amazonaws.com/aws-kinesis-agent-2.0.1-1.amzn1.noarch.rpm
                
```
If you have Java 1.7 and you don’t want to upgrade it, you can download agent version 1.x.x, which is compatible with Java 1.7. For example, to download agent v1.1.6, you can use the following command:
```
sudo yum install –y https://s3.amazonaws.com/streaming-data-agent/aws-kinesis-agent-1.1.6-1.amzn1.noarch.rpm
                
```
You can download the latest agent with the following command
```
sudo yum install -y https://s3.amazonaws.com/streaming-data-agent/aws-kinesis-agent-latest.amzn2.noarch.rpm
```
To set up the agent from the GitHub repo
1. First, make sure that you have required Java version installed, depending on agent version.
2. Download the agent from the awslabs/amazon-kinesis-agent GitHub repo.
3. Install the agent by navigating to the download directory and running the following command:
```
sudo ./setup --install
                
```
To set up the agent in a Docker container

Kinesis Agent can be run in a container as well via the amazonlinux container base. Use the following Dockerfile and then run docker build.
```
FROM amazonlinux

RUN yum install -y aws-kinesis-agent which findutils
COPY agent.json /etc/aws-kinesis/agent.json

CMD ["start-aws-kinesis-agent"]
```