Node js and MongoDB app on AWS

Question

What are the steps for deploying a Node js app, with express.js framework and MongoDB as database on AWS? This is my first such activity and I am not able to find any reliable source over the net.

Solution 1

Deploy nodejs-express-mongoDB backend on AWS EC2 Ubuntu(16.04)

Back-end is a private repo on Gitlab.

Steps: 1: Create EC2 Ubuntu server on AWS,

create EC2 instance

2: Connect personal computer with AWS server - use to control cloud Ubuntu server on personal computer,

Connecting Linux Instance from Windows Using PuTTY

3: Clone repo from Gitlab to Ubuntu server,

Configure ssh key on linux server

Clone gitlab repo to linux server

4: Install Nodejs and MongoDB on Ubuntu server,

Install Nodejs

Install MongoDB

Install MongoDB

5: Launch MongoDB and run Nodejs to start node server,

6: Test back-end server using Postman or Browser.

Other useful linkYouTube

Solution 2

AWS has a full documentation for this on their website. These documentations are extremely thorough and you should read these first.

• MongoDB on AWS
• Node.js on AWS
• Express.js on AWS

Here's a tutorial from 2015.

Comments

[boldnik]

I have to admit that these docs are poorly explaining some failures a developer may encounter during the step-by-step configuration and if he want to, for example, create another S3 bucket name for same stack. It requires not a single day to actually learn how to use CloudFormation... But unfortunately I can't advise anything better. MongoDB team (Atlas etc) and AWS are now in hot competition since DocumentDB was introduced.

[boldnik]

This is a very basic setup - just launch a server image and ssh into it and do the setup. Do you know if there's a CloudFormation template or something similar ready for a basic but scalable configuration?