beginner~2.5h
Deploying Spring Boot on EC2
The most direct path from a Spring Boot JAR to a running production instance — launching EC2, installing a JDK, running the JAR as a systemd service, and fronting it with a load balancer.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Package a Spring Boot application as an executable JAR and understand what `java -jar` actually runs
- •Run a Spring Boot JAR as a proper systemd service instead of a foreground terminal process
- •Explain why a bare EC2 deployment needs an Application Load Balancer in front of it for anything production-facing
- •Identify what EC2 deployment leaves entirely manual compared to ECS/EKS/Beanstalk
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