AWS Deployment

This is a guide to deploy our vapor instance to AWS for making the CI/CD pipeline streamlined.

Steps

1. Create AWS account
2. Select free tier
3. Sign into console

Create EC2 instance:

1. Choose AMI:

• Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
• Choose the 64-bit (x86) option

2. Instance Type:

• Choose the t2.micro Instance Type

3. Configure Instance

• Default settings

4. Add Storage

• Chance Size to: 20 GiB

5. Add Tags

• Default settings (no tags)

6. Configure Security Groups

• Add a rule: override the default ssh with "myIP/32"

7. Review

• Just launch the instance

8. Tags Create a new key pair and name it "username-desktop"

9. Add billing alerts

Instance setup

Update the server, install auto-upgrades and time service, reboot:

sudo su apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install htop -y apt-get install unattended-upgrades -y && dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades apt-get install ntp -y && ntpq -p && service ntp restart reboot

References:

• prereqs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connection-prereqs.html
• setup putty: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html\
• vapor guide: https://medium.com/swiftybeaver-blog/deployment-of-a-vapor-app-to-aws-ec2-f577eaa6c38c