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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.

120 minutes
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Lab Overview

Deploy TaskFlow to AWS cloud infrastructure using EC2 instances. Learn cloud computing fundamentals by creating EC2 instances, configuring security groups, installing Docker, deploying TaskFlow 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

Deploy 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

Technologies Covered

awsec2cloud-computingdockerdocker-composenginxtaskflowsecurity-groupsssh

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