DNS allows for human-readable addresses
Learning objectives
- Details that we won’t dig into:
- Describe the pieces of a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
- Explain why DNS changes can take a long time to propagate.
- Use DNS records to route traffic to a domain.
- Configure a domain name for an AWS EC2.
- Allocate an Elastic IP.
- Configure DNS records to route traffic to an AWS EC2.
Allocate an Elastic IP
- (Make sure the server from Chapter 12 is running, with
/rstudio
& /palmer
via nginx
)
- Navigate to “EC2” > “Network & Security” > “Elastic IPs”
- “Allocate Elastic IP Address” (and click “Allocate”)
- “Actions” / “Associate Elastic IP Address”
- To clean up, you can do “Actions” / “Release Elastic IP Addresses”