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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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ec2-fundamentalselastic-load-balancing-deep-divecicd-codepipeline

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