4. deploying a webapp to aws

written by relyq

published on: 2023-05-02

awsawsaws pt 2

may 2nd

02:06

already started deploying some things manually to aws so i’ll start documenting a bit here
i also decided i will be using ec2 for the api instead of lambda/gateway as i’d have to change my code for that to work. i can try that later but ec2 will work for now

plan

1. deploy frontend: set up an nginx server on ec2 with the webapp’s angular frontend
2. deploy database: set up an sql server instance on rds and import my db
3. deploy api: set up another ec2 with my .net webapi

progress

02:10

i’ve already deployed my frontend yesterday
just now i created a new rds with sql server and im in the process of deploying my .bak

i already set up the role and option groups but for some reason when i run the msdb.dbo.rds_restore_database procedure the db is not getting restored so i’ll have to figure that out

06:48

came back to this and found a way to import it from my server via the SSMS gui. however it wont work that way as im running SQL server 16 and AWS runs SQL server 14.
i think generating a script for SQL server 2017 should work just fine

07:30

finally could create the db with the generated script

may 3rd

08:20

and i just deployed the webapi to an ec2 instance and everything appears to be working as intended
here’s the aws-hosted webapp: https://aws.relyq.dev

next i will terraform my infrastructure and after that i’ll make a ci/cd pipeline