Founders & Coders AWS Workshop

A wild ride through the Amazon cloud! Go from nothing to a Full Stack AWS hosted app.

What we will will learn today:

• How to set up AWS security properly.
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• How to host your website on AWS.
  • Elastic Beanstalk
• How to deploy your website using the command line.
  • EB CLI
• How to set up online file storage system for your site.
  • Amazon S3
• How to set up a MySQL database, autolinked to your site.
  • Amazon RDS

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Prerequisites:
Things to Install
Bash Script Environment Variables

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##Step 1 - Check out the UI

• Add icons to the nav bar.

##Step 2 - Create a security role for your app

• Don't attach a default policy, we'll create one.

##Step 3 - Create a policy for your app

• This is where you set the privileges that your app has within AWS.
• For this app, the permissions necessary are s3:PutObject and s3:PutObjectAcl (access control list).
  • Policy Docs
  • Policy Options
  • S3 Policy Options
• ARN should be arn:aws:s3:::bucketname/*
  • ARN DOCS

##Step 4 - Attach the policy to your app's role

##Step 5 - Create a user for yourself

• This is to provide you with command line AWS privileges.
• Attach Elastic Beanstalk policy.

##Step 6 - Create an Elastic Beanstalk application

• Use the sample application provided.
• Create an RDS with it.
• Set the instance role to the one you made.

##Step 7 - Set up S3 Bucket

• Put bucket name in env.sh file and in the Elastic Beanstalk environment variables.

##Step 8 - Add external access to the RDS

• Add a line to it's security group.
• Check it out using MySQL Workbench.
• Add RDS environment variables to env.sh.

##Step 9 - Run server

• Has a line in the DB been created?

##Step 10 - Upload some files

• Go to S3 and look at the file permissions.

##Step 11 - Initialise Elastic Beanstalk

• eb init
• What has it created?
• Why has the .gitignore been edited?

##Step 12 - Deploy!

• eb deploy

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##Challenge

• Change the code so that it deletes the old picture when adding new ones. (Hint)

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Useful:

• AWS Node SDK Docs
• EB Deploy Docs
• AWS Environment Variables
• Accessing instances using SSH
• Service Roles

Extras:

• Build tools and AWS prestart
• Billing alerts
• .ebextensions
• EB logs
• Multi Factor Authentication
• Refunds