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[SUBMIT] Deploy starapi to AWS elastic beanstalk environment using pulumi(IaC)
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Hello, There are not many tutorials or guides on how to deploy strapi in different cloud providers especially AWS, I have deployed strapi to Heroku, GCP, and AWS. I would say AWS deployment was the hardest because it requires a lot of setups especially if we follow up deployment guide in the documentation so I think I can create a complete tutorial on how can we deploy strapi on AWS using infrastructure as code(IaC) Pulumi.
Outline
- Introduction
- Goals
- Prerequisites
- AWS account basic knowledge of AWS resources (IAM, EC2 ..etc)
- Infrastructure as code(IaC) with Pulumi
- why Pulumi?
- Setup Pulumi
- Craete a new pulumi Stack
- How can we deploy strapi to AWS using elastic beanstalk and docker?!
- The Different Methods to deploy strapi to AWS
- Why elastic beanstalk on AWS?
- Setup Strapi using docker
- create an app using strapi docker image
- Provision infrastructure using Pulumi(TypeScript)
- Create an S3 bucket for elastic beanstalk deployment
- Setup VPC
- Create PostgresSQL database instance using RDS
- Setup IAM Roles
- Create a new elastic beanstalk application
- Create a new elastic beanstalk environment
- Create or Update Infrastructure
- Destroy the infrastructure
- Conclusion
My content is
- [x] A Strapi Tutorial / Guide / How to article
- [ ] About Headless, CMS, javascript, open source, or jamstack
- [ ] Other, specify
What do you all think? ❤️ I love it! 🚀 I can help you!
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@omarkhairy21 I love the outline however docket image is not currently working with strapi v4 therefore it won't be possible unfortunately right now to work on this article
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I know it has been a while @omarkhairy21, but I just wanted to follow up with everyone here to see if anyone is still interested in writing this article. If not, we will be closing this issue due to inactivity.
You can now deploy Strapi via Docker https://blog.dehlin.dev/docker-with-strapi-v4
hey i am still interested in writing that one i just need the green light to go ahead
Hello @omarkhairy21 👋 Yes please go ahead. I am assigning this to you. Please share the draft when it is ready.
hey @dessireugarte I just get starting in the draft i will share it whenever it is ready but i noticed you are asking for a similar tutorial in https://github.com/strapi/community-content/issues/918 are you sure there will not be redundant content? also, i can do the same tutorial (i.e this ticket #635) without using pulumi what is your opinion?
@omarkhairy21 I agree with you, since it will be very similar. I will make a note in that commit.
Thanks @PaulBratslavsky and @omarkhairy21! Yes please go ahead and start writing the article without using pulumi.
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Hey @PaulBratslavsky and @dessireugarte i have updated the outline without using pulumi please confirm to me if it works
- [ ] Introduction
- [ ] Different ways to deploy docker images in aws
- [ ] What is Strapi - A Headless CMS?
- [ ] Goals
- [ ] Overview with a diagram (to demonstrate our way of how we are going to deploy strapi on AWS)
- [ ] Prerequisites
- [ ] Scaffolding project
- [ ] Build strapi with docker
- [ ] Connect strapi to PostgreSQL database container
- [ ] Put all together strapi and PostgresSQL with docker-compose
- [ ] Deploy our docker image to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- [ ] Push our docker image to AWS ECR
- [ ] Setup AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- [ ] Create a new application in Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- [ ] Connect our application with PostgresSQL instance in AWS Relational Database (RDS)
- [ ] Set up Load-Balancer with elastic load balancer and why do we need it?
- [ ] Testing the app live in production
- [ ] Conclusion.
i also i did a progress in writing but i have not completed
Just wanted to add that when it comes with Docker you could use the tool I built for it. I would also love to see this guide as I could use some of this parts and Pulumi for Deploify etc.
Hey @Eventyret thanks for pointing out your tool, actually your article was excellent and I will mention it in my article but when it comes to the tool I did not get when and where should I use it. I am open to hearing and learning from you and if is there a chance to introduce it i will.
So this is the tool https://github.com/strapi-community/strapi-tool-dockerize @omarkhairy21
Might simplify the whole setup docker as it's like 3-5 questions and you ha have the docker file 😊
Thanks @Eventyret it is a cool tool I would like to introduce it in my article I was confused becuase the readme file missing keywords that explain it generates docker files
Thanks @Eventyret it is a cool tool I would like to introduce it in my article I was confused becuase the readme file missing keywords that explain it generates docker files
Yeah it generates docker file for production and also docker compose for local development. 😊
Hello @omarkhairy21 👋 How are you? I'd like to know what is the status of this article?
Hi @dessireugarte thanks for following up I completed over 70% with +1000 words so i expect to be ready for reading the next Sunday
Hey, @dessireugarte and @PaulBratslavsky I would like to take your opinions about setting up suitable closure for the article, there are some possible closures: 1- Fix the Https problem with the setup of AWS Loadbalancer it would require an extra section for setting up SSL and adding a custom domain but I do think most users not going to get the benefit of load balancer because its price is very high and it helps in particular cases to distribute thousands of requests. 2- Fix the Https by using Nginx as a docker container in front of the strapi instance, it would require also extra sections 2- Simple articulation of how to automate the build and deployment process in CI/CD like GitHub actions
Also, how about splitting the tutorials into two parts?
Sorry for the late reply @omarkhairy21 🙏 I can't answer you this question but let me check with the team and I'll get back to you
I think adding the additional section should be fine since it is related to this article. Probably would go with this option 2- Simple articulation of how to automate the build and deployment process in CI/CD like GitHub actions
Hey @dessireugarte and @PaulBratslavsky the article is ready for review https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/men12f6jhervcg196at31/Deploy-Strapi-Docker-Container-On-Aws-Elastic-Beanstalk.paper?dl=0&rlkey=vb7jbzzidmsuuz1ap8dg0trvn
@dessireugarte or @PaulBratslavsky do you confirm this article has been reviewed / scheduled?
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