EC2 Fundamentals & TaskFlow Deployment Lab
Transform TaskFlow into a cloud-native application! Launch EC2 instances, configure AWS security groups, deploy TaskFlow with Docker Compose, and expose it to the internet with nginx. Master real-world cloud deployment patterns used by platform engineers in 2025.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 10. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 10: AWS Cloud Computing (slug: aws-cloud-computing)
Deploy the real TaskFlow application to AWS cloud infrastructure using EC2 and RDS. Learn cloud computing fundamentals by creating EC2 instances, configuring security groups, installing Docker, provisioning a managed Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database, deploying the real TaskFlow backend and frontend with docker-compose, and configuring nginx as a reverse proxy for production access.
What You'll Learn
Understand AWS cloud computing fundamentals (EC2, VPC, regions, availability zones)
Create and configure Ubuntu EC2 instances with appropriate instance types
Configure AWS Security Groups for secure network access (SSH, HTTP, HTTPS)
Generate and use SSH key pairs for secure EC2 access
Install Docker and Docker Compose on EC2 instances
Provision a managed Amazon RDS PostgreSQL instance and wire its connection string into an application
Deploy the real TaskFlow application using docker-compose on cloud infrastructure
Configure nginx as reverse proxy for production application exposure
Access cloud-deployed TaskFlow via public IP address
Apply 2025 best practices for automated provisioning, infrastructure as code concepts, and security-first approach
Prerequisites
Week 8 Kubernetes Fundamentals completed
TaskFlow application familiarity from previous weeks
Docker and Docker Compose experience
Basic networking concepts
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