There is a golden image of this server already in amazon at AMI Name: Utilities.Node.Deployment

The image has nginx, pm2, keymetrics, codedeploy-agent preinstalled

See CreateAMIFromScratch.md for the steps I took when creating the base image

The final goal is a golden image, which can be modified for any node app. The image will allow mulitple version of node, nginx, automatic code deployments, zero downtime restarts, performance monitoring and clustering.

The code in this repo is simply a hello world express app, with the added data for aws CodeDeploy.

Using this image for your app

Here's my steps to create compass.web/dev

Restore the AMI to a new instance

Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1 and click launch image

Choose the Utilities.Node.Deployment.Example AMI

If this is production, we want 4 CPU's = c3.xlarge (same as skd.web), minimum 2 servers behind LB

Image Type: Ubuntu 14.04 AMDx64

IAM role: NODE_TEMP NODE_TEMP gives the basic code deploy features, once we complete this box, we'll make a new golden image. The actual prod servers will have a new IAM role.

Auto Assign IP: Enable

8gb HDD is enough

Name: new_compass-web-dev

Security Group: node-test which allows all access if you're on the VPN use the gsg-keypair

Once the server boots, note the local ip address, I save the details into ~/.ssh/config

Host node
    HostName 10.0.1.163
    User ubuntu
    IdentityFile "~/Google Drive/Private Keys/gsg-keypair"
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Install the code

After you ssh to the box, impersonate the www user then download the code to the box

sudo su - www
cd /home/www/node/
git clone https://github.com/CaseNEX/Compass.Web.git
username: jlippold
password: createAToken

Since we use 2fa, create a personal access token from https://github.com/settings/tokens then delete it after you use it once.

Delete the .git directory: rm -rf /home/www/node/Compass.Web/.git/

Build once and test

npm install

!Compass may need postgres installed.

I need ports opened to redis, pg and redshift

Then I can run the server, like so:

NODE_ENV=dev REDIS_URL=compass-staging.lyam42.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com REDIS_PORT=6379 REDIS_EXPIRE=120 PORT=3000 node server.js

-- Freeze deps