Use this to deploy shiny server 'manually' via the Elastic Beanstalk UI

Created this as I encountered this issue deploying via ELB CLI

TODO

• Add instructions for deploying to Elastic beanstalk
• Add instructions for testing locally
• Add instructions for mounting persistent storage for apps
• Add ui for users to upload apps to the shiny server

Instructions

Local Setup

1. Clone this repo via the command line:

   git clone https://github.com/ranvirm/shiny-server-elastic-beanstalk.git

2. Navigate into the cloned folder

   cd shiny-server-elastic-beanstalk/

3. Create a new folder named myapp under the apps folder

   mkdir ./apps/myapp 

   The new folder directory should look like:

   shiny-server-elastic-beanstalk/
       /apps
           /hello-app
           /myapp
       Dockerfile
       Dockerrun.aws.json
       shiny-server.sh
       .dockerignore
       .gitignore

4. Copy all your shiny app code + files into the myapp folder

   cp -R ..path_to_your_app/* ./apps/myapp

5. Add the R packages your app uses. Open Dockerfile and add your packages to the list on line 17

   RUN R -e "install.packages(c('dplyr', 'pandas', 'shinySignals'))"

6. In the root folder (shiny-server-elastic-beanstalk/) run the below to create a zip file:

    zip -r deployment.zip .

7. The newly created deployment.zip file is the file you will upload to elastic beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk Deployment

1. Navigate to the Elastic Beanstalk UI in the AWS console

2. Click Create a new Environment

3. Select Web server environment and click Select

4. Fill in the required fields:

   1. Application name: shiny-server-1 (or whatever you want)
   2. Environment name: shiny-server-env-1 (or whatever you want)
   3. Under Platform
      1. Select Managed platform
      2. Under Platform select Docker
      3. Leave the populated values as default
   4. Under Application code:
      1. Select Upload your code
      2. Enter a version: 1.0 (or whatever you want)
      3. Select Local file
      4. Click Choose file and upload your zipped deployment file that you created earlier: deployment.zip

5. Click Create Environment
   This will begin the deployment and may take a few minutes to complete

6. Once the deployment has completed you will be presented with a url to the shiny server

   Going to the url will open up the shiny server homepage

   Add /apps/myapp/ to the end of the homepage url to view your app or the sample app with /apps/shiny-app/