Introduction A while back I built a basic CRUD app to learn more about app development. For a while I hosted it on an EC2 instance, but shut it down at some point. To get it back up an running I decided to split the front end hosting off and use S3. I had set up a simple website on S3 using the graphical interface before, so this time I wanted to challenge myself by using the command line with AWS CLI....

Introduction Up to this point, I hadn’t used Docker very much. The organizations I worked at were traditional Windows environments with no in-house development. I could see the value in containers generally, but it was hard to justify and especially to convince others it was worth using in those environments. I’ve long hosted various services for myself at home. In the past these were ran on separate Windows VMs so that I could better learn the skills needed for the work I was doing....