Dockerize & Deploy your nodejs app (with env) on AWS EC2 - Part 1/3

Your nodejs server app is ready. Its time to get it online and into the cloud. But the cloud can be overwhelming with many options and many tricks. We will breakdown a straight forward approach to reliably host your application on AWS and also manage its environment variables. Apart from hosting your application on day 1, you will also reach a point when you must automatically scale your application and load balance incoming requests. Finally we need a way to easily ship updates and push new code to the system. We will breakdown the full journey into 3 parts. Not because the journey is long, but because we want to understand the journey. Part 1: Dockerize and deploy a sample nodejs application using AWS ECR (Elastic container registry) and AWS EC2 (Elastic compute cloud). We will also use AWS parameter store for environment management. Part 2: Autoscale and Load balance the dockerized nodejs application using AWS Auto scaling group, AWS Application load balancer and EC2. Part 3: Continuous deployment of your dockerized nodejs application using AWS Code pipeline and AWS Codebuild and Github This is Part 1, Dockerize and deploy a nodejs app on AWS Lets pull up our sleeves and start

Mar 14, 2025 - 11:47

Dockerize & Deploy your nodejs app (with env) on AWS EC2 - Part 1/3

Your nodejs server app is ready. Its time to get it online and into the cloud. But the cloud can be overwhelming with many options and many tricks. We will breakdown a straight forward approach to reliably host your application on AWS and also manage its environment variables. Apart from hosting your application on day 1, you will also reach a point when you must automatically scale your application and load balance incoming requests. Finally we need a way to easily ship updates and push new code to the system.

We will breakdown the full journey into 3 parts. Not because the journey is long, but because we want to understand the journey.

Part 1: Dockerize and deploy a sample nodejs application using AWS ECR (Elastic container registry) and AWS EC2 (Elastic compute cloud). We will also use AWS parameter store for environment management.

Part 2: Autoscale and Load balance the dockerized nodejs application using AWS Auto scaling group, AWS Application load balancer and EC2.

Part 3: Continuous deployment of your dockerized nodejs application using AWS Code pipeline and AWS Codebuild and Github

This is Part 1, Dockerize and deploy a nodejs app on AWS

Lets pull up our sleeves and start