I have a web application that uses Selenium in backend to run few scripts when invoked by user. I want to deploy this web app on AWS.
Here are my findings so far:
I can have a windows EC2 instance created and then I can install tomcat, firefox and all the necessary stuff. Then using putty or any other client, I can deploy my war and start tomcat.
I can directly make use of Elastic Beanstalk and deploy my war file there itself but then, there is no windows EC2 available for beanstalk and I don't know how to install firefox there and make my application work.
What is the best way to achieve this and what steps should I follow. I want to install a specific firefox version to be able to make it run with my selenium scripts.
There are two separate things here:
Deployment of web application on AWS cloud
Run the selenium tests against your web application
According to me, you should first think of deploying a web application to AWS cloud. There are many ways by which you can get it deployed to AWS cloud with below services:
Spin a new AWS EC2 instance, install all required software and deploy the web application.
Use AWS elastic beanstalk service with either with tomcat or docker.
Use AWS ECS if you prefer docker
According to me, second option will be quick for you with tomcat environment option. If you select tomcat environment, then your platform will be Tomcat 8 Java 8 on 64bit Amazon Linux.
Now, here comes the second part. You can have below options for your browser environments.
Spin a new separate AWS EC2 instances with correct AMI and install your specific browsers on these instances.
If you prefer SaaS, then you can take a look at browserstack or SauceLabs for remote environment.
If you have CI(jenkins/travis/Circle CI), then make use of that infrastructure to luanch your tests with either option from the above.
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I have an application I want to deploy as a Docker container using Amazons Beanstalk platform. However the application is only certified against v17 of Docker, but Beanstalk uses v18 of Docker.
Is there a way of configuring Beanstalk to use a specific version of Docker? I cannot find any options to do this when I create my application within the AWS console (I have signed up for a free account so maybe such an option is for paid versions).
I have hosted an ASP.NET Core web application on an EC2 instance using Nginx. The EC2 isntance is running on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS machine.
I am developing the code in windows machine and publishing the code. Then copying the files into the EC2 instance using WinSCP. The web application is running nicely and i can hit the application using postman or browser.
Now, i have decided to use jenkins for CI/CD. I have installed jenkins in the same ec2 server where my web application running. Jenkins is running in port 8080 and my web application is running in port 80. I have configured jenkins with my bitbucket repository by following this link.
Now, my jenkins server is up and running. If i commit anything in the bitbucket repository, jenkins server automatically triggers a build.
Previously, i have published the code using below command:
dotnet publish -o my-sample-site
And then copied the files from my-sample-site directory to the directory in EC2 instance. Now, i want to automatically build the asp.net core web source codes and publish the codes to the folder where my web application is running. I may have to restart the service also after changing the codes.
What should i include in the jenkins build step so that whenever bitbucket repository changes triggers build in jenkins, it will build the asp.net core source codes and then publish the codes in the directory of the EC2 instance where my web application is running.
How should i do this automatically? Any reference please. Thanks in advance.
I have set up CI/CD server using Jenkins connected to a Bitbucket repository for an ASP.NET Core Web API running in an EC2 instance. Anyone can check my article here.
I have a J2EE web application running on JBoss and RHEL/CentOS.
What would be the best option available in AWS to migrate my application to cloud?
Option 1: Provision EC2 instance with RHEL/CentOS and deploy JBoss and deploy application war files.
Option 2: Deploy application into Elastic Beanstalk using Docker.
Option 3: Deploy application into Elastic Beanstalk using Java.
Option 3 does not suite me as they only support Tomcat.
Option 2 may suite me if I make code changes to deploy into Docker container.
Option 1 may suite me the best, but it may not be possible to auto-scale.
Kindly advice me if my understanding is correct or not and if you have any better ideas for running J2EE application using JBoss in AWS.
Much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I got a local Docker stack running Node.js, MongoDB and Nginx.
It runs perfectly using docker-compose up --build.
Now it's time to deploy my application to a production environment.
I have considered EC2 Container Service and EC2, but can you recommend an easier approach? The learning curve is steep!
For MongoDB -
Use AWS quick start MongoDB
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/overview.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/architecture.html
For rest of the docker stack i.e NodeJS & Nginx -
Use the AWS ElasticBeanstalk Multi Container Deployment
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_ecs.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_v2config.html
Elastic Beanstalk supports Docker, as documented here. Elastic Beanstalk would manage the EC2 resources for you so that you, which should make things a bit easier on you.
You can install Kontena to AWS and use that to deploy your application to production environment (of course other cloud providers are also supported). Transition from Docker Compose is very smooth since kontena.yml uses similar syntax and keys as docker-compose.yml.
With Kontena you will have private image registry, load balancer and secret management built-in that are very useful when running containers in production.
Hi We have built a java based web services project with using jboss server. How do I host this application with Amazon cloud? This web services act as back end for a mobile android app.
I am looking for PaaS option of Jboss server and Postgres database. I could create a postgres database. But could not find Jboss server.
My understanding is in PaaS, Jboss and Postgres should be able to scale up itself as per demand.
Another option provided by Amazon is EC2 as far as I have understood. But if I go with EC2, I will have install and set up jboss and postgres on my own. Then does it scale up by itself as per demand?
Please guide.
If you want to deploy your web application to AWS and ensure its scalability, you have basically two options:
EC2 instance [IaaS] - The disadvantage is, as you mentioned in your question, that you have to configure everything manually. Some external mechanism for scaling has to be used. Amazon provides its AutoScaling service which can be configured to launch new EC2 instances based on utilization or some other metric.
Elastic Beanstalk [PaaS] - This service has the auto-scaling already built in and manages the EC2 instances with your application on its own (it takes care about launching them, deploying the app etc). The disadvantage is that JBoss server is not support at the moment (you would have to switch to Tomcat).
There is a way, how to make JBoss work on Elastic Beanstalk, however. ELB has newly added the support for Docker so if you make your JBoss API run in Docker, you can deploy it to ELB and scale it without much effort and configuration.
As for the database, mentioned in your question, Amazon has plenty of choices, Postgres included, in their RDS service.