What are some of the barriers that prevent you from deploying quickly on the cloud?
Besides manages services like Heroku, Digital Ocean, if you have deployed applications on cloud providers like AWS, GCP. What are some of the challenges you faced that prevented you from deploying your applications quickly?
Hey, I'm building something in a similar space (but different approach) to you but for smaller applications / less experienced devs. As a tech leader, I'd say the most painful thing on AWS is setting up IAM users with the right permissions and working out how to permission services to connect to each other. If you could automate adding the standard permission sets that would be a great help. Also logging on Lambda is awful. Another thing: if you could work out a way to generate a Cloud Formation script to duplicate an existing set of services that would be super useful.
Agree. This is something that we are working on as this is something that we think could be made a lot more intuitive. Like lambda connection to the database, we think connecting those could be made simplier. On automating adding permissions sets, would it be the default permissions set by the company itself? Would love to have a conversation and bounce ideas if you'd like!
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Currently, I am facing an issue deploying a Django project on AWS EB. Even the stack overflow can be super helpful for so many things, I can't seem to find an answer and the documentation is terrible. Well at least for the issue I am having it does not provide any helpful insight.
So I am being forced to consider deploying on a vanilla ec2 instance or somewhere else.
Have you thought of using lightsail? Not sure about the traffic of your Django project, if it is not too much and you do not require autoscaling maybe you could consider Lightsail?
My main experience deploying an app to AWS from scratch was a simple node service on elastic beanstalk. My biggest challenge was learning terraform and getting all of the config right to deploy the app, redis, and manage permissions like IAM. Getting all that working with Github actions also took a while. Maybe 10-20 hours spread out over a week.
Have you taken a look at https://www.pulumi.com/?
I haven't. There are a ton of IaC options, but this seems interesting
this is something we are exploring if we should use under the hood for our tool https://www.getstackable.com/