Dropwizard app on AWS

Question

I'd like to run a Dropwizard on the amazon cloud. Examples I've seen all seem to start with a docker image of the dropwizard app and deploy that. I was wondering if there was a simpler way of achieving the same.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You can use Boxfuse to deploy your Dropwizard app to AWS. Boxfuse is able to read your Dropwizard yml configuration file and automatically provisioning and configure all required AWS infrastructure including ELBs, security groups, auto-scaling groups and the actual instances. All of that with just one command:

boxfuse run my-dropwizard-app-1.0.jar -env=prod

Here is a tutorial you can follow to get you started in no time: https://boxfuse.com/blog/dropwizard-aws

Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse