OVERVIEW: Deploy a Node.js server to AWS EC2

Deploy a simple Node.js server to EC2 using Elastic Beanstalk:

• Choose a server you’ve built previously:
  • Option 1: A simple API or Web Server
  • Option 2: A socket.io event Hub
• The server should not require a database
• Check in your server to GitHub

Task 1:

• Create a new environment, using Elastic Beanstalk from the AWS Control Panel (GUI)
• Manually deploy your application to this environment by uploading a .zip file

Task 2:

• Using the same server, create a new environment using Elastic Beanstalk from your terminal
• Manually deploy your application to this environment by using eb deploy

• GUI deploy: http://elasticbeanstalk-env.eba-tzcaitau.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
• CLI deploy: http://class16ebclienv.eba-2rbpqm27.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/

• Add a User (IAM Management Console)

  • Click on “Add Users” (Access management ⇒ Users ⇒ Add Users)
  • Enter User name, check “Access key - Programmatic Access”
  • Click “Next: Permissions”
  • Select “Add user to group”
  • Click “Create Group”
  • Use same group name
  • Add “AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk”
  • Click “Next: Tags”
  • Click “Next: Review”
  • Click “Create User”
  • ***KEEP ACCESS KEY ID AND SECRET ACCESS KEY

• Provision the Environment (Elastic Beanstalk Management Console)

  • Click on “Create Application”:
  • Application Name
  • Tags (skip)
  • Platform (Node.js, use defaults)
  • Application Code (Upload your code)
  • Source code origin (local file ⇒ .zip the files for your server; DO NOT INCLUDE NODE MODULES)
  • Click “Create application”

• Create the AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI (Terminal)

  • Type “aws configure”
    • Enter Access Key ID (from Add a User above)
    • Enter Secret Access Key
    • Default region name - (us-west-2 if not already defaulted)
    • Default output format - hit ‘enter’
  • Type “eb init”
  • Select a default region - 3
  • Select an application to use - 2 to Create a New Application
  • Enter Application Name -
  • It appears you are using Node.js. Is this correct? y
  • Select a platform branch:
    • Node.js 14 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2
    • Node.js 12 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2
    • Node.js 10 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2 (Deprecated)
    • Node.js running on 64bit Amazon Linux (Deprecated)
  • Cannot setup CodeCommit because there is no Source Control setup, continuing with initialization. Do you want to set up SSH for your instances? N
  • (In AWS Elastic Beanstalk, check “Applications” to see if your Application Name (in step 5 above) is listed.)
  • In terminal, type “eb create ” (class16ebclienv) to create your environment (this creates storage for the data - this will take some time)