How to deploy MEAN app to AWS EC2

instructions.md

1. Generate a key pair
2. Create an AWS EC2 Instance
3. Edit Security Group network rules
4. Add Elastic IP and associate it to EC2 Instance
5. Install Node

• sudo yum install gcc-c++ openssl-devel make
• wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash
• close ssh connection or terminal
• nvm install [version]
• node --version

6. Install MongoDB

name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/3.2/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.2.asc" |  sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.2.repo```

• sudo yum -y update && sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-server \ mongodb-org-shell mongodb-org-tools
• sudo chkconfig mongod on
• sudo service mongod start

6. Install Git sudo yum install git
7. Clone the repository
8. Install dependencies npm install
9. Install PM2 globally npm install pm2 -g
10. Add app to pm2 (forever run): pm2 start [PATH_TO_APP.js] --watch --name="NAME"
11. Redirect request on port 80 to 3000 sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3000
12. (optional) Add this running PM2 app to https://app.keymetrics.io

 

Some tips: https://blog.codeship.com/running-mean-web-application-docker-containers-aws/

Using Docker: https://blog.codeship.com/running-mean-web-application-docker-containers-aws/

Further improvement: https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blogs/devops/automatically-deploy-from-github-using-aws-codedeploy/