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The Fastest Way To Get Your Application Up And Running!
Let’s be honest, developing web apps, and APIs and at the same time setting up, and maintaining the infrastructure is not often an easy task.
I’ve been in that position both as a software engineer and a DevOps. One of the services I relied on when it comes to pushing apps to production quicker is AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
In this tutorial, I’d like to walk you through 5 steps to make your application deployment as easy as possible.
1- Use Docker
AWS Elastic Beanstalk offers a variety of platforms on which you can build your applications. It supports applications built in Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
But the wonderful thing about AWS Beanstalk is that you can use Docker to spin up an environment of containers serving your app and that’s one of the things that make Beanstalk the way to go for a lot of developers.
No need to demonstrate why Docker is a must-used tool today. Docker has literally changed the way we develop and run apps even in production. Not only does using Docker ensure consistency across multiple developments and release cycles, but it also allows you to build a development environment in a matter of minutes and ease the CI/CD workflow of your applications. And there are tons of other…
