Overview of Steps

• AWS EBS expects for your apps to listen on port 5000
• Update your Spring Boot application.properties to use: server.port=5000
• Select Web App > Platform Java
• Upload the JAR file

Create basic Spring Boot app

1. Start with a simple REST Spring Boot app.
2. In application.properties, change port to 5000: server.port=5000
3. Open terminal window
4. cd project directory
5. mvn clean package
6. java -jar target/myapp.jar
7. Test it locally: http://localhost:5000
   

Deploy on AWS

1. Log into to AWS
2. Navigate to Elastic Beanstalk
3. Create a new application
4. Select app type: Web Application
5. Give it the name: simple-boot-demo
6. Create a new environment
7. For platform, select: Java
8. Select option to Upload your JAR file.
   Note: the screen says only WAR and ZIP files, but it does in fact accept JAR files
9. Upload your JAR file:  target/myapp.jar
10. Create the application
11. Once app is created, then visit the app URL.
12. You will see your Spring Boot app up and running.