• Use CF template (N. Virginia) and spin up an EC2 instance which Docker is already installed, SSH and HTTP ports are open.

• Check if docker is active and running:

systemctl status docker

• Copy webpage content from on-prem to EC2 instance, under /webpage directory in out instance:

scp -i "pemname.pem" -r ./website ec2-user@ec2-18-212-68-212.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/home/ec2-user

#To move all files and folders to an upper folder in linux:

mv  -v ./* ../

• Create an nginx containter and bind mount newly created folder:

docker run -d --name explore-california -p 80:80 -v /home/ec2-user/webpage:/usr/share/nginx/html nginx

• This is manual (imperative) deployment of the webpage. Let's do it with declerative approach.

• Prepare Dockerfile

  • vim Dockerfile
  • To find out the image we need to write to FROM section; go to https://hub.docker.com/
  • Search an image which can run nginx, bcoz we need nginx to run our website.
  • See "Official build of Nginx."
  • Click that image and check that out
  • See all the supported images we can use on "Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links"
  • See "alpine" is enough for us, we use Amazon Linux
  • FROM nginx:alpine --> We use alpine image and nginx on top of it
  • MAINTAINER Rafe Stefano # This is optional
  • Copy the content of the website to the image: COPY webpage /webpage
  • Copy nginx config for prod: COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx.conf
  • Look at the image documentation, how to use it! "How to use this image"
  • What port should be exposed: EXPOSE 80
  • :wq
  • Use Dockerfile Documentation for further querries: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/

• Build the image:

  • For detailed info: docker build --help
  • docker build --tag website .

• Run the image:

  • docker run --publish 80:80 website