Server Management & Scaling

This repository is a simple multi-thread HTTP server written in NodeJS.

It is simulating FleetWit's API server, which is also multi-thread and written in NodeJS.

Instructions

Your goal is to setup and scale this HTTP server on AWS.

Credentials to connect to AWS have been sent by email.

• Setup a small machine, any unix or linux of your choice.
• Install the dependencies required.
• Clone and install the HTTP server (port 80).
• Setup the HTTP server as a service: It needs to start when the machine boots.
• Scale up to have the HTTP server running on 3 machines.
• Provide the URL of the load balancer

Dependencies to install

In order to install the HTTP server, you need to install:

• git
• nodejs
• npm

Install

• Clone this repository on the machine using git
• cd into the directory
• Execute: npm install to install the server's dependencies.

To launch the server

To launch the HTTP server, execute (from the repository) node main.js -port 80

Once the server is launched, the console will display: Server listening on port 80

To test the server

The HTTP server only serves one page: /.

If you open the server's IP in the browser, you'll see a JSON response, exposing a few of the machine's properties: CPUs, type, platform, uptime...

Install video

I installed the server on AWS this morning and made a video of the install process: https://www.screenr.com/8IJN

Note that on the video the http server is made to run on port 8080 because port 80 was already taken.