Deploying a LAMP application with Amazon Lightsail

Introduction to Amazon Lightsail, using a LAMP application. Includes load balancing and database setup, plus migration to EC2.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create the infrastructure you will use in the subsequent tasks
• Deploy a two-tier LAMP stack application as a monolith in a single Lightsail instance
• Rearchitect the application by separating the front end from the database
• Scale and load balance the web front end
• Move your application to other AWS services by:
• Creating and using an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database
• Moving your front end to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Comfortable editing scripts using a text editor
• You do not need a deep knowledge of PHP, SQL, or the LAMP stack, since we will provide you with the application code; but it is useful to have a general idea.

Course Outline

• Task 1: Deploy Your Lab Infrastructure
• Task 2: Deploy a Monolithic LAMP Application
• Task 3: Connect To Your Lightsail Database
• Task 4: Scaling Your PHP Front End
• Task 5: Migrating to Your Amazon RDS Instance
• Task 6: Upgrading to Amazon EC2