Udacity-Static-Jenkins

This is a repository, containing code for deploying a static web application on Amazon S3 bucket on Amazon Web Services Platform, using Jenkins and BlueOcean. This code was tested to run on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance, which is a service by Amazon Web Services.

Requirements to deploy the static website using Jenkins

1. Set up an account for Amazon Web Serivces to use services by AWS, to deploy this code on Jenkins. Here's a link to register your own AWS account: AWS registration portal
2. Set up an IAM user in AWS console, with permissions for EC2 Full Access, S3 Bucket Full Access and VPC FUll Access. Here's a link to know more about IAM users in AWS: AWS Documentation: What is IAM?
3. Copy the generated Access Key and Secret Access Key of your IAM user, and login to the console using that.

Launch an EC2 instance and install Jenkins on it

1. Set up an EC2 Instance with following parameters:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• T2.micro
• Security Group: Add Custom TCP Rule, Port Range 8080, Source 0.0.0.0/0 and SSH rule: Protocol: SSH, Port range: 22, Source "My IP" Here's a link to help in launching EC2 instance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstarts/latest/vmlaunch/step-1-launch-instance.html

2. Connect to your EC2 instance. Here's a guide to connect to EC2 instance to your local machine: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Connect-using-EC2-Instance-Connect.html