Week 14 — Deploying Apps

This week we will deploy the apps we have been building in class.

Contents

• Lecture
  • Outline
  • Web Server with EC2
• Lab
  • Writeup
  • Demo App
• Recommended Reading

Lecture

• Slide Deck Part 1: Web Server + AWS EC2 (by Felix)
• Slide Deck Part 2: Deploying Web Apps on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture Outline

1. Final Project discussion
   • Mandatory group checkins on one of these days: Dec 3, 4, 7, or 8. Please reach out to me with a few suggested times. Around lunch time or 5-5:30pm are best for me.
   • Informal checkins by appointment
   • Let me know how I can help!
2. Optional & Graded Homework 5
   • Due Dec 3rd
   • Work with a partner if you want
   • Link: https://github.com/MUSA-509/homework-5
3. Course material
   • What's a web server?
     • Software (and hardward) that can satisfy web requests such as HTTP
     • Primary function is to store, process, and deliver web pages to clients (e.g., your browser)
     • Communication is usually via HTTP
   • Demo setting up an EC2 instance
     • Options for the instance
     • Gaining access via ssh
     • Linux environment / installing resources
     • Setting up web services
     • Running server, port forwarding
   • ElasticBeanStalk
     • What AWS services does it comprise?
     • Read through Elastic Beanstalk page
     • Side note: if you want a custom URL, let me know. You'll have to purchase a URL (~$10)

Recommended Reading

• Deploying a Flask app on Elastic Beanstalk
• Mozilla's page on web server
• Web servers
  • nginx — very popular open source web server
  • Apache HTTP Server — most popular web server used
• Load Balancer
  • nginx description
  • Wikipedia article
• What is DNS?