[wip] Server-side development comfortably and freely with the server
Overview
Trouble
- Engineer Mac (MacBook Pro: i7, Mem16GB) is blowing fire and it's painful
- Started to eat up heavy-duty software CPUs such as online conference software (zoom) and online whiteboard (miro).
- On Mac of server-side engineer (Rails / AWS), various development servers are run by docker,
Slow enough to make you laugh, coupled with docker, which was originally heavy
Thing you want to do
- In order to reduce the load on the Mac, I want to send the process from my Mac to an external server (AWS EC2) as much as possible.
Anxiety and expectations
- There are various concerns about remotely separating the development environment that was completed locally until now.
Or there are expectations because it is remote.
- Can it be developed comfortably?
- "I hate developing with Vim by connecting with ssh? I want to use VSCode"
- Can it be developed safely?
- "There is no possibility of communication data leakage"
- Will it be possible to develop freely anywhere?
- "I want to work at a cafe or donut shop"
- Will it be possible to freely develop any terminal?
- "I don't want to take my computer with me on my trip !!!, I want to work on my iPad or smartphone !!"
- Is there any wasteful cost?
- "It is physiologically impossible to cost more than 10,000 yen in a month when you are not using it."
plan
Phase division
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It seemed difficult to do everything suddenly, so I divided it into phases as follows.
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[x] Phase1. Connect to the development environment with a PC from a predetermined base (office, home, etc.)
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[] Phase2. Connect to the development environment from any location on your PC
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[] Phase3. Connect to the development environment from any location with any (own) terminal
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[] Phase4. Cost optimization
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This article
- This article exposes the ongoing notes "Let's do this here" and "Let's do this here".
Configuration design / survey memo
- Selected contents, selected intentions, simple comparison, setting contents, etc.
Configuration: Phase1
- Overview
- I was able to expel the CPU load of the development server (docker) and VS Code to EC2 from the usual development environment.
- Cost: About $ 20 a month
- Infrastructure: Mainly uses AWS (Route53, EC2, etc.)
- IDE: VSCode Remote Development
- Own domain
- Encrypt communication (SSH / HTTPS)
Remote server
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Prerequisite
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SSH possible-> Linux
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Can be published-> Domain connected (HTTPS)
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Welcome conditions
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There are ways to keep costs down
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Conclusion: AWS EC2
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Performance can be scaled out when needed
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However, it is necessary to stop temporarily
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spot instance keeps costs down
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vCPU: 2, Mem: 4GB (t3.medium) for about $ 15 a month
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(Instance operating cost + various costs such as storage)
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Because the person who wrote this article is used to it
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Many people use AWS for work. .. ..
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Other options
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Cloud system
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GCP, Azure, etc.
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VPS system
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Sakura's VPS etc.
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Settings
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[x] security group settings
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HTTPS: Set the IP address of a predetermined base (office, home, etc.) in "My IP"
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SSH: Set the IP address of a predetermined base (office, home, etc.) in "My IP"
Remote development environment
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Prerequisite
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You can edit and execute code
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Encrypted communication between client and server
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Welcome conditions
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Rich and active plugins
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It is better if it works only with a browser
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Conclusion: VSCode + Remote Development Plugin
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VS Code is an IDE that has become the standard for server-side development in 2020.
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Remote Development is a function that allows you to run the IDE on the Linux server that you SSHed to.
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Other options
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Web IDE system
* AWS Cloud9
Cryptographic communication
- Prerequisite
- Web access (HTTPS)
- Welcome conditions
- I don't want to write the trouble
- I want to keep costs down
- Conclusion
- freenom (original domain) + Route53 (DNS) + Caddy (HTTPS web server)
- freenom: free domain
- You can get a domain for free with a specific TLD
- Ref: Get domain with freenom
1 .tk Tokelau, New Zealand's territory in Australasia
2 .ml Mali
3 .ga Gabon
4 .cf Central Africa
5 .gq Equatorial Guinea
* Route53
[WIP] VPN
- Prerequisite
- I want to encrypt all the communication contents of the client
- New location: I don't want to add / remove a firewall (Security Group) every time I connect from a new IP
- Welcome conditions
- Operation / communication speed is fast
- Can be connected to various terminals such as smartphones and tablets
- Example: iPad / android / ChromeOS
- Survey
- Wireguard is good
- It seems that operation and communication are fast and installation is easy.
- 614th Build a VPN server with WireGuard
- Compatible with Mac / Windows / Linux / iOS / Android
* https://www.wireguard.com/install/
- Chrome OS seems to be able to use Android apps
* Add docs that cover using Wireguard from ChromeOS
[WIP] To develop at any time
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Prerequisite
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Run on Windows / Mac / Chrome OS / Android / iOS
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Welcome conditions
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Works only with a browser
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I'd be happy if I could develop it with Oculus Quest or other customized OS.
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investigating
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Connect "Development Environment Server" to VS Code Online as a Self-hosted environment
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Use "Visual Studio Online" in Self-hosted environment
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△: VS Code itself needs to be installed on the server
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Desktop environment (Gnome / LXDE) must be installed
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△: VS Code Online (codespaces) seems to be integrated into GitHub Codespace, so I'm not sure about the future
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Microsoft to integrate "Visual Studio Codespaecs" of Web IDE into "GitHub Codespaces"
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A web server version of third-party VS Code
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△: The plug-ins that can be used are limited.
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I can't use Visual Studio Intellicode
[WIP] Stop the server when it is not running
- I want to do something like heroku
- An SSH port forwarding connection request occurs to the "basket server"
- Authentication completed
- "Step server" starts "Development environment server"
- About 30 seconds?
- Connecting