Deploying to AWS Part V: the final punch list (load balancer, CDN, SSL)
Looking for a fresh, 2018 approach to deploying a Rails app to AWS? We've partnered with DailyDrip on a series of videos to guide you through the process. We're covering how to Dockerize a Rails app, AWS Fargate, logging, monitoring, setting up load balancing, SSL, CDN, and more.
In our previous videos, we dockerized our Rails app, setup an ECS container, deployed to AWS Fargate, configured logging, and monitored our app's performance. However, we still have a few remaining items.
What's left in our AWS production deployment punch list? Configuring a load balancer, SSL, and a CDN. We're using containers, which gives us a great way to scale, but have left out some pretty important pieces to the puzzle.
In today's video, we're going to address these issues. Let's jump in.