Easy Ways to Deploy Personal Projects

@nickwu241

Hosting frontend only websites (HTML, CSS, JS)

Github Pages: https://pages.github.com/

Firebase Hosting: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html

Using Github Pages

Ensure index.html exists in github repository

Enable Github Pages

Using Firebase Hosting

from https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

Using Amazon S3

Requires more steps but they have decent documentation to follow :)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosting.html

Hosting server side applications

Heroku supports many runtimes (including Docker!) https://devcenter.heroku.com/

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Docker + Terraform:

• Docker allows you to package your application into an “image” using a Dockerfile. Then you can run your application anywhere with docker installed. https://docs.docker.com/get-started/
• Terraform allows you to create infrastructure (e.g. Cloud VMs) by creating files to specify your desired infrastructure using a declarative syntax. https://www.terraform.io/

Dockerfile example, workflow: build > push > run

Terraform example using AWS

Workflow:

• create/modify .tf files > plan > apply > destroy (if you want)

Example configuration file and terraform apply output:

• https://gist.github.com/nickwu241/f0f2cdcd07e9f2a56c93b5b2b81a362b

Terraform example using AWS

Life without Terraform - too many steps & hard to reproduce :(

Code and Slides:

https://github.com/nickwu241/2018-lightning-talk

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-zbeD9s1LrVjGWqASR47JzMuNGdWoBdsF4c7QZIaA-E/edit?usp=sharing