How to install DynamoDB on Linux using a Daemon

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install default-jre

svunnam@ubuntu:~$ /usr/bin/java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_151" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)

mkdir DynamoDB cd DynamoDB wget https://s3-sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-local-sao-paulo/dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz tar -zxvf dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz rm dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz

mkdir /opt/dynamodb mv * /opt/dynamodb cd /opt/dynamodb mkdir /opt/dynamodb/data find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ; chmod -R g+w ./data

useradd dynamodb chown -R dynamodb:dynamodb /opt/dynamodb

touch /etc/systemd/system/dynamodb.service vim /etc/systemd/system/dynamodb.service

[Unit] Description=DynamoDB on Localhost After=network.target Documentation=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DynamoDBLocal.html

[Service] Environment=deploydir=/opt/dynamodb Type=simple User=dynamodb Group=dynamodb

ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Djava.library.path=${deploydir}/DynamoDBLocal_lib -jar ${deploydir}/DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -dbPath ${deploydir}/data

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Reload Daemon service systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl stop dynamodb.service sudo systemctl start dynamodb.service sudo systemctl status dynamodb.service

netstat -ntlp | grep LISTEN tail -f /var/log/system.log

That will do it, now everytime your machine startups, you will have DynamoDB service working in the background.