Ruby on Rails server using Amazon EC2

This example lives in the pulumi/examples repository. Check out just this directory to use it:

$ git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
$ git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-ts-ruby-on-rails
$ cd pulumi-examples/aws-ts-ruby-on-rails

This is a conversion of the AWS CloudFormation Application Framework template for a basic Ruby on Rails server. It creates a single EC2 virtual machine instance and uses a local MySQL database for storage. Sourced from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/sample-templates-appframeworks-us-west-2.html.

Prerequisites#

1. Install Pulumi
2. Configure AWS credentials
3. Install Node.js

Deploying the example#

1. Create a new stack, which is an isolated deployment target for this example:

   pulumi stack init

2. Set the required configuration variables for this program:

   pulumi config set aws:region us-east-1
   pulumi config set dbUser [your-mysql-user-here]
   pulumi config set dbPassword [your-mysql-password-here] --secret
   pulumi config set dbRootPassword [your-mysql-root-password-here] --secret

3. Install dependencies:

   npm install

4. Stand up the VM, which will also install and configure Ruby on Rails and MySQL:

   pulumi up

5. After several minutes, your VM will be ready, and two stack outputs are printed:

   pulumi stack output

   Current stack outputs (2):
   OUTPUT          VALUE
   vmIP            53.40.227.82
   websiteURL      http://ec2-53-40-227-82.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/notes

6. Visit your new website by entering the websiteURL into your browser, or running:

   curl $(pulumi stack output websiteURL)

7. From there, feel free to experiment. Simply making edits and running pulumi up will incrementally update your VM.

Cleaning up#

Once you’re finished, destroy your stack and remove it:

pulumi destroy
pulumi stack rm