Deploying my own application to my AWS EC2 instance

[joylin]

Hello, could anyone help me with deployment on EC2 with node? and I can play the default openvidu version, but I want to deploy my own application. Then I uploaded my application fold to the location /opt/, so what is next?

[cruizba]

EC2 with Node? What do you mean exactly? If your in AWS you can easily deploy OpenVidu with cloudformation following this guide: https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-aws/

If I understand correctly, you have a Node App using OpenVidu Server. You can follow this guide to deploy your own apps
https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-openvidu-apps/

TL:DR: You just need to deploy your application at port 5443 and specify your url of OpenVidu in your app to https://YOUR_OPENVIDU_DOMAIN_OR_PUBLIC_IP

[joylin]

Thanks for your help? Then I got this " ERROR: Couldn’t connect to Docker daemon at http+docker://localhost - is it running?

If it’s at a non-standard location, specify the URL with the DOCKER_HOST environment variable."

So how to fix this?

[cruizba]

Hi, joylin, did you run docker-compose as root?. AMIs used in our Cloudformation template has docker and docker-compose installed.

[joylin]

Hey Cruizba,

 I did run docker as root not docker-compose. so I need install docker-compose too?

Thanks!

Joy Lin

[cruizba]

What guide are you following to install OpenVidu? If you’ve deployed with CloudFormation, docker-compose is actually installed in the system.

[joylin]

https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-openvidu-apps/

[cruizba]

Did you follow this guide before?: https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-aws/

[joylin]

Yes, and I added my application to /opt/my application, so how to run this.

[joylin]

I uploaded openvidu-call files to /opt/openvidu-call, so I want to run this.

[cruizba]

Is your application dockerized? If not, you need to run a http server serving your app at port 5442 via http. That’s the only thing you need. https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-openvidu-apps/#installed-natively

If you’re application is dockerized, you need to modify the file at /opt/openvidu/docker-compose.override.yml and adapt it to your own application.

Regards,
Carlos

[joylin]

I think my application is dockerized. It works locally. So how to modify the file at /opt/openvidu/docker-compose.override.yml?

[cruizba]

What do you mean by “I think is dockerized”.

If your app is dockerized you should have a docker image, and your app should have some environment variables to work. I suposse that your app works locally with something like…

docker run  -e ENV_VAR1 -e ENV_VAR2 ...  <my-app-image>

You need to edit the /opt/openvidu/docker-compose.override.yml in this way:

version: '3.1'

services:
    app:
        image: <my-app-image>  #  <---- Put here your app image
        restart: on-failure
        network_mode: host
        environment:
            # Maybe the env variables of your docker image are different....
            - SERVER_PORT=5442  #  <---- This is the port used by your app. You should have this defined as env variable.
            - OPENVIDU_URL=http://localhost:5443 # <--- This is the url to make requests to openvidu-server
            - OPENVIDU_SECRET=${OPENVIDU_SECRET} # <---- Your app will need this secret to make http petitions. 
            # Other env variables that your app have

With the information you give me I can’t help you more than this. Also, all of this is explained here: https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-openvidu-apps/#with-docker

[joylin]

Yes, I don’t have a docker image , So I followed
https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/demos/openvidu-call/#docker-image
but I’m not able to build an image. so I tried
https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.14.0/deployment/deploying-openvidu-apps/#installed-natively
I am still not sure that’s how to work? Which method is easy to deploy on AWS EC2.

[micael.gallego]

There is no “best” method. You should use the method you prefer.

[joylin]

Please see below, I followed your instruction, then I got error:

docker build -f /Users/joylin/Desktop/openvidu-call/docker/prod.dockerfile -t test --build-arg BRANCH_NAME=master --build-arg BASE_HREF=/

“docker build” requires exactly 1 argument.
See ‘docker build --help’.

Usage: docker build [OPTIONS] PATH | URL | -

Build an image from a Dockerfile

So how can I fix this ?

[CSantosM]

Please, copy the command exaclty how the docs says:

If you don’t have knowledge of docker I recommend you see its documentation.

docker build