DeployingToAWS.md

Deploying to AWS

Objectives

• Create EC2 instance
• Get example application from github.
• Use SCP to transfer files to a server
• Install node un Ubuntu
• Start node naively
• Install git on AWS

How do you create a EC2 instance?

• Log in/create account at Amazon AWS
• Launch a new t2.micro Ubuntu Instance.
• Add HTTP and HTTPS to security group
• Create and download a new key
• View instances
• connect to the server using ssh ssh -i /path/to/pem/file [email protected]
• update key permissions chmod 600 /path/to/pem/file
• update apt-get repository sudo apt-get update
• update system sudo apt-get updgrade

How do you get a repo from github?

• Fork and clone https://github.com/rogerwschmidt/aws-deploy
• npm install
• npm start
• Go to localhost:3000 in your browser to make sure that every thing works.

How do you use SCP to transfer files to a server?

• Look at this documentation
• In your aws instance
  • Create a folder for your server sudo mkdir -p /srv/express
  • Change premissions sudo chown ubuntu /srv/express
• Copy files scp -i /path/to/pem/file -r . [email protected]:/srv/express

How do you install node in Ubuntu?

• Resource
• curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
• sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
• sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

How do you start node naively?

• In /svr/express, run sudo PORT=80 npm start
• In your browser, go to HTTP://your.ip.address.here
• Run sudo npm install -g nodemon
• In /svr/express, run sudo PORT=80 nodemon
• Make a change on your local copy of the express app, and "redeploy" with scp

How do you intall git on AWS?

• Resource