CircleCI AWS EC2 deployment example

Example of deploying a Node.js application to AWS EC2 using CircleCI

Requirements

Before you start this tutorial, I assume you have the following:

• A Github repository
• A CircleCI account
• An AWS account
• A running AWS EC2 instance (Ubuntu 16.04)

Configure EC2 instance

First you need to SSH into the remote server.

ssh ubuntu@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Install server dependencies (Node, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx)

Create file install.sh on the remote instance and copy contents from local folder /ubuntu16.04/db/install.js

Create file createAdminUser.js on the remote instance and copy contents from local folder /ubuntu16.04/db/createAdminUser.js.

chmod +x ./install.sh
install.sh

If done correctly all dependencies will be installed and a MongoDB admin user is created.

Alternatively you can type the commands by hand.

Clone git repo

git clone https://github.com/ChristianRich/circleci-aws.git

Docs

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/single-box/#steps-for-installation-on-aws-ec2