bipedalprog / quicknotes

quicknotes

A simple Spring Boot application that I am using to compare the easy of deployment to GCP and AWS.

I wanted an application that would represent an actual application that would be deployed as a monolith with a multi-page front end and authentication and authorization.

Local development uses H2 for a data store. AWS and GCP deployments can use the native relational store.

Building the Container

./gradlew jib --image <userid>.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/personal:quicknotes

AWS Deployments

Elastic Beanstalk

You must use JDK 8 to compile this project. AWS ElasticBeanstalk did not like the JDK 11 classfile format.

Add an environment variable for SERVER_PORT=5000. That is the default port for EB deployments so we need to let Spring know.

There is a buildspec.yml that you can use with CodeBuild to produce a zip that EB can deploy. I have also created a CodePipeline with this that monitors my GitHub repository and automatically deploys the latest build to my public EB instance.

ECS

The application runs under Elastic Container Service without additional configuration. I used Farscape to avoid creating an EC2 cluster by hand.

quicknotes's Issues

Create a ECS deploy in AWS.

Just use Fargate, no need to allocate EC2 instances.

Card layout is a bit off. Some run into neighbors.

Need to add user management tables and JDBC authentication

Create deployment for AWS Beanstalk.

Need a script to deploy the application as an Elastic Beanstalk application. The in-memory database can be used for now.

Create a container build for the application.

Should allow for multiple target repository.