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AWS Fullstack Deployment

Full-stack Node.js/Express/TypeScript app (Udagram) deployed on AWS with a complete automated pipeline — Elastic Beanstalk hosting, RDS PostgreSQL, S3 image storage, and CircleCI CI/CD end-to-end.

Node.jsExpressTypeScriptAWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS RDSAWS S3CircleCI
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AWS Fullstack Deployment screenshot 1

The Business Problem

Shipping a Node.js/Express app locally is easy, but standing up a real AWS deployment — a managed database, decoupled object storage, and a pipeline that safely auto-deploys every push — is where most portfolio projects stop short.

My Responsibilities

Provisioned and configured the AWS infrastructure end-to-end and wired up the CI/CD pipeline for this Udacity Cloud DevOps Nanodegree capstone (Udagram).

Main Workflows

  1. 1Push to the repository triggers the CircleCI pipeline
  2. 2Pipeline builds and tests the Node.js/Express/TypeScript app
  3. 3On success, CircleCI deploys straight to the Elastic Beanstalk environment
  4. 4The running app reads/writes to RDS PostgreSQL and stores media in the S3 bucket

Tech Stack & Architecture

Client
Node.js / Express (TypeScript)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
RDS PostgreSQL + S3

Backend API service — no UI to screenshot. See the source for full endpoint documentation.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk hosting for the Node.js/Express/TypeScript API and frontend
AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) as the managed production database
AWS S3 bucket for image/media storage, decoupled from the app server
CircleCI pipeline automating build, test, and deployment on every push

Security & Deployment

Environment variables and secrets managed through CircleCI's project environment settings, not committed to the repo
RDS provisioned as a managed, access-controlled database instance separate from the app tier
S3 bucket used specifically to decouple media storage from the compute layer

Results

Fully automated pipeline — a push to master builds, tests, and deploys to Elastic Beanstalk with no manual steps.