AWS App Runner - Demo hosting a NodeJS app in the cloud directly from GitHub ( AWS CDK )

🔥AWS AppRunner is a powerful service that simplifies the deployment and running of web applications in the cloud. It provides an easy way to deploy and manage applications without worrying about infrastructure. This service is a combination of AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda, allowing you to focus on your code and then deploy it in the cloud.

With AppRunner, you can start with a GitHub repository or a container image in AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Then, AppRunner will build and deploy the application. Any changes made to the application can be pushed to the repository, triggering the CICD pipeline and rebuilding the application on the fly. You can also use multiple branches for multiple environments.

You can also customize the settings of your application such as the number of vCPUs and memory needed, as well as how the application should scale. Once the application is deployed, you will get a public endpoint that you can use. AppRunner takes care of the scaling and load balancing of the application, so you don't have to. It also has a pay-as-you-go pricing system, allowing you to pay for only what you need.

In a nutshell, the development team creates an AppRunner service, gets back a service URL, configures the compute settings and gets a public endpoint that they can use. With AppRunner, developers can focus on their code and leave the infrastructure to the cloud.

In this video let's see how you can grab an existing NodeJS app and host it in the cloud directly from Github


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[seanknowles]

Any chance of a dedicated Apprunner CDK tutorial with github deployments? Keep running into issues, its really not that

[gabeame]

How do you handle typescript in the repository? Do you specify the tsc command in the package json that will be executed in app runner or do you deploy on the repo only the js builded locally? Thanks