Get your app running fast with step-by-step instructions .

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This course will teach you everything you need to know to get started running a production Rails application using Amazon Web Services with 0-downtime deploys.

We'll cover every detail:

Basics: AWS Components: Deployment: SSH keys & config

Compiling Ruby 2.3.0

Setup Nginx 1.4.x

Setup Unicorn

Security concerns

Log rotation

Misc tweaks EC2

ELB

VPC

Route53

S3 & CloudFront

AMIs Rails 4.2.x

Bundler

Capistrano 3

AssetSync & the Asset Pipeline

Everything from provisioning an EC2 instance using an LTS release of Ubuntu, to deploying the app with nginx+unicorn, to security issues is covered inside.

More obscure stuff too! Learn how to setup details like log rotation, DNS configuration, and creating an AMI from our instance for easy re-use.