🚀 Dockerized Microservices App

A full-stack microservices-based application built using Docker, Docker Compose, Node.js, React, and MongoDB, deployed on AWS EC2.

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📌 Project Overview

This project demonstrates how to build and deploy a containerized microservices architecture where:

• Frontend (React) communicates with Backend API
• Backend interacts with MongoDB
• All services run in isolated Docker containers
• Managed using Docker Compose

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React.js
• Backend: Node.js + Express
• Database: MongoDB
• Containerization: Docker
• Orchestration: Docker Compose
• Cloud Deployment: AWS EC2

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⚙️ Features

• Add & fetch items dynamically
• REST API integration
• Service-to-service communication
• Container networking using Docker
• Full-stack deployment on cloud

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📂 Project Structure

docker-microservices-app/ │ ├── backend/ ├── frontend/ ├── docker-compose.yml └── README.md

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🐳 Docker Setup

Build & Run

docker-compose up --build

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🌐 Application URLs

• Frontend → http://localhost:3000
• Backend → http://localhost:5000

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☁️ Deployment (AWS EC2)

1. Launch EC2 instance (Ubuntu)
2. Install Docker & Docker Compose
3. Clone repository
4. Run:

sudo docker-compose up -d --build

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🧠 Key Learnings

• Containerization with Docker
• Microservices architecture
• Service discovery via Docker networking
• Full-stack integration
• Cloud deployment

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🚀 Future Improvements

• Nginx reverse proxy
• CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
• Kubernetes deployment
• Monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)

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⭐ Contributing

Feel free to fork and improve!

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📬 Connect With Me

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