Go to Resoruce tab, find EC2 instance and click on hyperlink which will take you to instance view. You should see last event with logical ID of your stack name in status CREATE_COMPLETE. Afterwards all mentioned resources should be already available. Stack creation should take around 4 mins. Remember to tick checkbox for Capabilities which is necessary in case you have IAM role defined in template. I’m using default, EC2 is accessible for evryone on port 80.

Put you IP address if you want to restrict access.

SourceIpIngerss - CIDR notation, will be used for security group ingress rules.

BucketName - must be unique in AWS, only lowercase letters and number are allowed.

App name - any name, will be part of tag for each resource.

Next set parameters defined in Cloudformation template. Choose Template is ready and upload the template. Go to Cloudformation -> Create Stack -> With new resources (standard).

Role (uses managed policy AWSCodeDeployRole).

with custom instance role (alllows connection via Session Manager and Get, List operations on our S3 bucket).

with installed nginx, Codedeploy and Session Manager agents.

Luckly for you, I have already prepeared Cloudformation template which will provision following resources: You can choose two ways to provision resources: Cloudformation template or manual provision in AWS console. Now let’s setup necessary resources in AWS.

This will create new project with example html and css file. Click New project button and then From template -> Pages/Plain HTML. Let’s use one of the available templates to create new Gitlab project. Afterwards we will use CI/CD pipeline combining Gitlab CI and AWS Codedeploy to deploy another web page in the place of default NGINX web page.

We will provision EC2 instance in AWS, install NGINX and check that defult NGINX webpage is accessible and visible in web browser. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Gitlab to deploy application on AWS. While all this is true, it is common to leverage cloud and at the same time use what you already been using until now. Anybody can create environment from scratch in a blink of an eye, cloud provides flexibility and scalability, cloud providers make sure you have plenty of choice in terms of resoruces and they take over more and more maintenance duties from you. Nowadays everything is hosted in a cloud which make sense.

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