omkar0114 / aws

This repo contains the simple GO web app deployed on AWS EC2 insance.

Deploying a Golang Application on AWS EC2

Testing the project locally

1. Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/Omkar0114/AWS.git

2. Open your terminal go inside your cloned project directory using cd Run following command:

go run main.go

3. Initialise and start the project Open your browser on

localhost:8080

Set up an AWS EC2 instance

1. Create an IAM user & login to your AWS Console
   • Access Type - Password
   • Permissions - Admin
2. Create an EC2 instance
   • Select an OS image - Ubuntu
   • Create a new key pair & download .pem file
   • Instance type - t2.micro
3. Connecting to the instance using ssh

ssh -i instance.pem ubunutu@<IP_ADDRESS>

Configuring Ubuntu on remote VM

1. Updating the outdated packages and dependencies

sudo apt update

2. Install Git - Guide by DigitalOcean

Deploying the project on AWS

1. Clone this project in the remote VM

git clone https://github.com/Omkar0114/AWS.git

2. Open your terminal go inside your cloned project directory using cd Run following command: You need to install golang first, on the Remote VM To install golang, follow this guide Or you can use this command to install golang on Ubuntu

sudo apt install golang-go

To check if golang is installed or not, run this command

go version

Now run this command to run the project

go run main.go

3. Initialise and start the project Open your browser on

alloted IPv4 address of EC2 instance:8080

NOTE - We will have to edit the inbound rules in the security group of our EC2, in order to allow traffic from our particular port

Project is deployed on AWS 🎉