Some useful commmands you will need to build your goloang binary and deploy to aws-ec2

golang-deploy-to-aws-ec2.md

Some useful commmands you will need to build your goloang binary and deploy to aws-ec2

build golang

$ GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o [binary-name]

• type go env to check your environment variables
• GOOS stands for Go OS, depends on what ec2 machine you rent, you might have different os setting
• GOARCH stands for Go Archetecture
• -o only allowed when compiling a single package, define the name of output file

securely copy binary to ssh machine

$ scp -i /path/to/[your].pem [binary-name] ubuntu@[public-DNS]:/home/ubuntu/[binary-name]

• scp stands for secure copy
• -i stands for identity
• : for root folder or :/home/ubuntu/[binary-name] for more complex routes

setup services for the machin

ssh login

$ ssh -i /path/to/[your].pem ubuntu@[public-DNS]

Change mode of file to 700

$ sudo chmod 700 [name-of-binary-file]

create service

$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/[filename].service

as following

  [Unit]
  Description=Go Server

  [Service]
  ExecStart=/home/<username>/<path-to-exe>/<exe>
  WorkingDirectory=/home/<username>/<exe-working-dir>
  User=root
  Restart=always

  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target

control the service

• Add the service to systemd.
  • sudo systemctl enable [filename].service
• Activate the service.
  • sudo systemctl start [filename].service
• Check if systemd started it.
  • sudo systemctl status [filename].service
• Stop systemd if so desired.
  • sudo systemctl stop [filename].service