Heroku-like Amazon EC2

Question

Is there anything I can install on my EC2 instances that make AWS Heroku look alike?

eg:

• create an application to create a hero
• git click

But for AWS.

Answer 1

Ok, now there is! It was called AWS Elastic Beanstalk (still in beta, as of March 2013)

After starting the initial setup, further deployments should be as simple as git aws.push

EDIT: Just a good and broad overview of AWS deployment options, Werner Vogels (AWS CTO)

Answer 2

There are several topics that I need to address before I can fully answer your question; so please bear with me.

A little understanding

For your two examples, Heroku uses a number of different technologies to achieve the level of simplicity that it provides as a service platform. One of these technologies includes: Heroku's patented tool belt, which offers a set of command line tools & - allows developers to interact with their applications & - as well as interaction with many of the tools provided by Heroku, such as terminal access for various languages. The tool belt itself relies on two other technologies: Ruby and Git; which are supplied with the installation.

In a nutshell

Now that you create the Heroku application, you are actually creating the git repository in the Celedon Cedar runtime stack (by default); this repository is then added as a remote repo. This allows you to immediately launch git push heroku master . There is much more going on behind the scenes: for example, when you click, your commits are intercepted by the git pre-receive interceptor, which launches your application through the slug compiler and pre-packs it for distribution to the dyno collector; nevertheless I was distracted. For more information on more advanced topics, check out: https://devcenter.heroku.com/ ; there is a lot of information to read.

Stack

Now let me explain the cedar stack, as this is basically what your question is about. Cedar Celedon is one of many; however, this is the current default value (for many reasons). This polyglot runtime stack currently provides six web languages ​​(at the time of writing) running on Ubuntu (stable version 11.04, I suppose). All of these technologies run on top of the AWS EC2 computing environment.

So, to finally answer your question: you will need to install a suitable operating system, such as: Ubuntu; a set of languages ​​such as: Ruby, Python, Node.js, etc. Git (for deployment), and the rest is up to you.

Answer 3

If you have a fixed number of instances, use custom git deployment instead of using Elastic Beanstalk, as described in the article: http://www.jeffhoefs.com/2012/09/setup-git-deploy-for-aws-ec2-ubuntu -instance / .

The basic idea of ​​installing a git repository in an EC2 instance. When you want to deploy something, just paste your changes into the remote repository installed on the EC2 instance.

I think this approach has the following advantages over Elastic Beanstalk:

• You do not pay for S3 buckets for storing application versions;
• You have full control over application deployment steps.