sangativamsikrishna/aws-session-by-kunal-and-abhishek

Deploying a Node Js Application on AWS EC2

Deploying a Node Js Application on AWS EC2

Testing the project locally

1. Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/verma-kunal/AWS-Session.git

2. Setup the following environment variables - (.env) file

DOMAIN= ""
PORT=3000
STATIC_DIR="./client"

PUBLISHABLE_KEY=""
SECRET_KEY=""

3. Initialise and start the project

npm install
npm run start

Set up an AWS EC2 instance

1. Create an IAM user & login to your AWS Console
   • Access Type - Password
   • Permissions - Admin
2. Create an EC2 instance
   • Select an OS image - Ubuntu
   • Create a new key pair & download .pem file
   • Instance type - t2.micro
3. Connecting to the instance using ssh

ssh -i instance.pem ubunutu@<IP_ADDRESS>

Configuring Ubuntu on remote VM

1. Updating the outdated packages and dependencies

sudo apt update

3. Install Git - Guide by DigitalOcean
4. Configure Node.js and npm - Guide by DigitalOcean

Deploying the project on AWS

1. Clone this project in the remote VM

git clone https://github.com/verma-kunal/AWS-Session.git

2. Setup the following environment variables - (.env) file

This .env file contains the details of Publishable Key and Secret Key from stripe Website . Got to developrs and API Keys , you will get the keys their and paste it in bottom of your .env file

 After creating .env file you shoud run the following commands  to execute it
  $ npm install - It will install all packages
  $ npm run start - It will start the application on port no 3000 and you should open it in EC2 Security Gropus. 
  
   Then finally run the app in web browser http:// <public Ip:3000>/
   
DOMAIN= "http:// <public Ip:3000>/"
PORT=3000
STATIC_DIR="./client"

PUBLISHABLE_KEY="pk_test_51N9SecSHA1SReqCrhVasZywYf4x5v3Wz9EKaiwVEn0sXwjTggZHH8TCttpP8VnX5mZjlFhULYsw9wBUpupcT9i0u00SAUD4ilD"
SECRET_KEY="sk_test_51N9SecSHA1SReqCrs5dwLOCJNGWGj3rRhG1QbYfRybuT5jh6u7GKZFNNTUzbQ2oTGpOEB6payPBZFC90CxXHT29Q00SwjlKM6G"

For this project, we'll have to set up an Elastic IP Address for our EC2 & that would be our DOMAIN

3. Initialise and start the project

npm install
npm run start

NOTE - We will have to edit the inbound rules in the security group of our EC2, in order to allow traffic from our particular port

Project is deployed on AWS 🎉