jtclark2/making_websites_different_ways

Trivial Sites that will be used to test various deployment approaches

MakingWebsitesDifferentWays

Trivial Sites that will be used to test various deployment approaches

Method 1: Deploy Static Websites (using Amazon S3)

• Go to S3 service
• Create bucket (make sure to enable public access)
• Configure Bucket
  • Properties → Static website hosting → edit → enable
    • Use all the defaults
    • For this example
      • The default (index document) page is index.html
      • The error document is error.html...though I don’t think we’ll use it
  • Permissions → Edit bucket policy
    • Paste in example, swapping in your own bucket name (leaving the trailing /*, to indicate this applies to everything in that bucket)
  • Objects → Upload → index.html
    • Use defaults for upload
    • index.html is just a simple hello world written in html
• Go back to properties → Static website hosting
  • Follow the link to see the contents of index.html being displayed

Method 2: Deploy Serverless (AWS Lambda)

1. Create Lambda Function
   1. Open Lambda service (he has this option directly in cloud9, but it’s either a plugin, or there has been a GUI change since he filmed
   2. Create Function:
      1. Select Function name
      2. Select runtime (eg: python)
   3. Configure Lambda Function
      1. Function overview → +Add Trigger
         1. For this example, select API, which is used for http and RESTful APIs
            1. Select REST
      2. Security: Select Open, so that no additional configuration is required yet
   4. Create content for the function (see lambda_function.py)
2. Test Lambda Function:
   1. Create Test Event
      1. Provide input keys and values ({“key”: “value”}), or just use open braces {} for now
   2. Deploy
   3. Test:
      1. Make sure to deploy before testing
      2. You should see
3. View content:
   1. Select the API Gateway trigger that you created above
   2. Go to details, and follow the link to API endpoint
      1. You should seen the content returned from your function call