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The Cloud: Our Final Frontier

The Cloud: Our Final Frontier

Learn what the prerequisites are for deploying your app to the cloud.

What to expect in this chapter?

We have already seen how to deploy to a local Swarm cluster, albeit with only a single node. In this chapter, we take this a step further and create infrastructure running in the cloud. We will create a cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS). By the end of this chapter, we will have our application deployed and running in AWS.

Although our cloud deployment won’t be production-grade, you will have gained some valuable experience and will have started to get a feel for some of the real-world considerations at play. Note that, as the cloud services we use in this chapter aren’t free, some (small) costs are associated with ...