Deploying a Spring Boot Application on AWS Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk

amazon-elastic-beanstalk, amazon-web-services, spring-boot

Solution

Tutorial: How to deploy a Spring Boot application to Amazon AWS using Elastic Beanstalk

Youtube video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVlzoRMa3U

Source Code Link: https://github.com/marcthomas2013/spring-boot-aws

Full tutorial link: https://mtdevuk.com/2015/02/10/how-to-deploy-a-spring-boot-application-to-amazon-aws-using-elastic-beanstalk/

Creating a Spring Boot War:

- Start up eclipse IDE with the Spring Extensions installed. For Luna add this link to your update installer http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e4.4/

- You’ll also need Tomcat server installed in Eclipse. If you don’t have this setup then search Google for setup instructions before you continue.

- Select File->New->Other->Spring->Spring Starter Project

- Set the name and the artifact to spring-boot-aws

- Change the packaging from jar to war (This does a couple of things that I’ll explain later)

- Select Actuator and Remote Shell so that we have some RESTful services to test the app with.

- Click Finish

It has created a simple Spring Boot application with some REST services like /beans that will return a JSON object of all the beans in your application.

Deploy your application using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

- Login to Amazon AWS.

- In the main control panel select Elastic Beanstalk under Deployment & Management.

- Click on Create Application in the top right corner.

- Enter the Application Name and click Next.

- Environment Tier – Web Server

- Predefined Configuration – Tomcat

- Environment Type – Single instance

- Click Next

- Select Upload your own, click Browse and locate the war you created earlier.

- When the application is uploaded you will see the next page where you select your URL.

- Enter a name and click check availability to see if you can use it.

- Click Next

- We don’t need a RDB in this example so click next here.

- In this next step you are defining the EC2 instance that will be created, if you are using a free trial then stick to the free t1.micro instance type.

- EC2 Key Pair, can be left unselected. You won’t need it for now and most likely you won’t have one configured yet. This will be covered in a later post.

- Click Next.

- In Environment Tags click next again because we don’t care about this.

- Review the configuration, and then click Launch.

Amazon AWS will now provision your server, install the Tomcat server and deploy the war file that you uploaded. It does take a good 5-10 minutes for this action to complete.

Another Full tutorial is available here: Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying a Full-Stack Spring Boot Application in AWS

If you want to deploy code in the official way using CLI, then you can go through this tutorial:

P.S If you had problem of 502 Bad GateWay nginx you have three options i prefer changing the spring boot port to 5000 check here for more details Bad GatWay problem 3 options to solve it

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