Automated Provisioning of Spring Apps to EC2 & VMware vCloud
summary
Demonstrates deploying Spring apps with VMware vFabric Application Director to vCloud and EC2, installing a contact app (in‑memory DB → PostgreSQL on a separate node → external DB + Apache proxy), generating property files and flipping Spring profiles, and updating plus scale out 1→4 nodes without touching existing VM IPs; uses S3 for binaries, bash/PowerShell hooks, visible execution plan and per‑script logs, and autobind wiring that cuts catalog surface to autobind reduces 89 properties to 9; deployments complete (≈10 min); scale‑in is not supported.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and goals
- 2:19Cloud computing concepts
- 5:23Application director overview
- 8:57Terminology and mapping
- 11:51Demo: vCloud deployment
- 24:11Demo: EC2 deployment
- 30:25Demo: Database integration
- 47:31Demo: Apache proxy and networking
- 58:56Demo: Scaling out
- 1:03:31Demo: Application updates
- 1:12:03Demo: Spring Trader and Q&A
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