Deploy with AWS CodeDeploy and BitBucket
Posted on Friday, July 15 2016

CodeDeploy is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) service to help coordinate your application deployment to EC2 instances. You don't need to go through FTP applications anymore to push code into your app. You do it directly from your version control system (VCS). Integrating CodeDeploy with Github is pretty well-documented online, with videos and step by step instructions. But what if you prefer working with BitBucket? If you're anything like me, you truly appreciate disposing of unlimited private repos for free - a service that only BitBucket offers. Luckily, there are also great online resources to help using this service with BitBucket. However, one key point that is not made clear enouph from the aforementionned documentation - or at least it isn't to me - is that you need to launch your instance with proper policies attached to your IAM role. So, in this post, we are going to review the entire process of deploying an application to a virtual web server with BitBucket. And hopefully, this will work like a breeze! [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, June 29 2016

There are pretty clear instructions on how to install Laravel with your local system on the framework's official website. But how about running it live? In this post, we'll use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a single ec2 instance inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with Laravel and Nginx installed. [...]
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