There are two simple ways to run application on Amazon EC2.
One is to run screen command and run application there as a process.
Second one, probably better, is to create SystemCTL Service which you can run later.
This is how to do it:
So, let's assume we have AWS EC2 Instance, i will use Amazon Linux 2.
These are the steps to create and run service:
- Go to SystemCTL directory:
cd /etc/systemd/system- Create new service - we will call it backend as we're trying to run Spring Boot Backend App
sudo touch backend.service- Open file in Vim / Nano etc
sudo vim backend.service- This is the content of the service:
[Unit]
Description=Describe what this service is doing
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar your-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar # This is the command which you're using to run app
Restart=always # This means, service will always try to be online
WorkingDirectory=/home/ec2-user # Directory from where you're running command
# Stardard Output logs
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=backend
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target # This defines when the service should be starting- After this you need to restart daemon and run service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable backend.service
sudo systemctl start backend.service
sudo systemctl status backend.service