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  • Forest Admin
  • Getting Started
    • Quick start
    • Development workflow
  • Reference Guide
    • How it works
      • Environments
      • Developing on Forest Admin
        • Using branches
        • Deploying your changes
        • Forest CLI commands
          • init
          • login
          • branch
          • switch
          • set-origin
          • push
          • environments:reset
          • environments:create
          • deploy
          • schema:diff [beta]
        • Express packages
    • Models
      • Enrich your models
      • Relationships
        • Create a Smart relationship
          • GetIdsFromRequest
        • Smart Relationship Examples
          • Smart hasMany relationship in mongoDB
    • Actions
      • Create and manage Smart Actions
        • Use a Smart Action Form
        • Use a Smart Action Intent
      • Smart Action Examples
        • Calculate the distance between two string addresses
        • Impersonate a user
        • Create a record with a multiselect through a many-to-many relationship
        • Handle enums with alias labels in a smart action
        • Dropdown with list of values in smart action form
        • Custom dynamic dropdown in a form using smart collections
        • Refresh hasMany relationship in smart action
        • Smart segment to restrict access to an action on a record details view
        • BelongsToMany edition through smart collection
        • Upload files to amazon s3
        • Upload several files with the File Picker
        • Retrieve smart field info in a smart action
        • Smart action to create several records from the input of a single smart action form
        • Add many existing records at the same time (hasMany-belongsTo relationship)
        • Call a webhook with record ids
        • Bulk update records
    • Smart Fields
      • Smart Field Examples
        • Add an HTML credit card as a smart field in a summary view
        • Display field with complex info in html format (rich text editor)
        • Generate signed urls to display S3 files in a smart field
        • Print a status object in a single line field
        • Sort by smart field
        • Sort by smart field that includes value from a belongsTo relationship
        • Add fields destined to the create form
        • Add validation to a smart field edition
        • Display smart field as progress bar using rich text editor
        • Update point geometry field using a smart field and algolia api
    • Smart Collections
      • Examples
        • Create a Smart Collection with Amazon S3
        • Smart relationship between model and stripe cards
        • Create records from a Smart collection
        • Searchable smart collection with records fetched from hubspot API
      • Serializing your records
    • Routes
      • Default routes
      • Extend a route
      • Override a route
    • Integrations
      • Stripe
      • Mixpanel
      • Intercom
      • Elasticsearch
        • Interact with your Elasticsearch data
        • Elasticsearch service/utils
        • Another example
      • Zendesk
        • Authentication, Filtering & Sorting
        • Display Zendesk tickets
        • Display Zendesk users
        • View tickets related to a user
        • Bonus: Direct link to Zendesk + change priority of a ticket
      • Dwolla
        • Display Dwolla customers
        • Display Dwolla funding sources
        • Display Dwolla transfers
        • Link users and Dwolla customers
        • Dwolla Service
      • Razorpay
      • Hubspot
        • Create a Hubspot company
        • Display Hubspot companies
      • Twilio
        • Send an SMS with Twilio and Zapier
      • Azure Table Storage
      • Slack
        • Send Smart Action notifications to Slack
      • Algolia
        • Geocode an address with Algolia
    • Smart Views
      • Create a Map view
      • Create a Calendar view
      • Create a Shipping view
      • Create a Gallery view
      • Create a custom tinder-like validation view
      • Create a dynamic calendar view for an event-booking use case
      • Create a custom moderation view
    • Smart Segments
    • Scopes
      • Create a scope more than one level away based on a Smart field
      • Scope on a smart field extracting a json's column attribute
    • Performance
    • Charts
      • Create an API-based Chart
      • Create a Smart Chart
      • Create Charts with AWS Redshift
  • Extra help
    • Setup
      • Install
      • Connecting Forest Admin to Your Database (Forest Cloud)
      • Forest Admin IP white-listing (Forest Cloud)
      • Why HTTPS is necessary even locally
      • Troubleshooting
      • Prevent permission errors at installation
      • Deploy your admin backend to AWS
      • Deploy your admin backend on Heroku
      • Deploy your admin backend to Ubuntu server
      • Deploy your admin backend to Google Cloud Platform
      • Install Forest Admin on a remote machine
      • Use Forest Admin with a read-only database
      • Configuring CORS headers
      • Running Forest Admin on multiple servers
      • Flatten nested fields (MongoDB)
    • Upgrade
      • Upgrade notes (Rails)
        • Upgrade to v9
        • Upgrade to v8
        • Upgrade to v7
        • Upgrade to v6
        • Upgrade to v5
        • Upgrade to v4
        • Upgrade to v3
      • Upgrade notes (SQL, Mongodb)
        • Upgrade to v9
        • Upgrade to v8
        • Upgrade to v7
        • Upgrade to v6
        • Upgrade to v5
        • Upgrade to v4
        • Upgrade to v3
      • Update your models' definition
      • Monitor your Forest's status
      • Manage your Forest Admin environments programmatically
      • Changing your domain name
      • Migrate to the new role system
      • Push your new version to production
    • Databases
      • Use a demo SQL database
      • Use a demo MongoDB database
      • Populate a postgreSQL database on Heroku
      • Connect to a read replica database
      • Plug multiple schemas
      • Add new databases
      • Manage SQL views
    • Settings
      • Customize your /forest folder
      • Disable automatic Forest Admin schema update
      • Include/exclude models
      • Display extensive logs
      • Laravel specific settings
    • Releases Support
    • Other documentations
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Deploy your admin backend to AWS

This tutorial is designed to assist you with a step-by-step guide to deploy the admin backend to Amazon Web Services, using EC2, ELB, ACM and Route53.

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Please be sure of your agent type and version and pick the right documentation accordingly.

This is the documentation of the forest-express-sequelize and forest-express-mongoose Node.js agents that will soon reach end-of-support.

forest-express-sequelize v9 and forest-express-mongoose v9 are replaced by v1.

Please check your agent type and version and read on or switch to the right documentation.

This is still the latest Ruby on Rails documentation of the forest_liana agent, you’re at the right place, please read on.

This is the documentation of the django-forestadmin Django agent that will soon reach end-of-support.

If you’re using a Django agent, notice that django-forestadmin v1 is replaced by v1.

If you’re using a Flask agent, go to the v1 documentation.

Please check your agent type and version and read on or switch to the right documentation.

This is the documentation of the forestadmin/laravel-forestadmin Laravel agent that will soon reach end-of-support.

If you’re using a Laravel agent, notice that forestadmin/laravel-forestadmin v1 is replaced by v3.

If you’re using a Symfony agent, go to the v1 documentation.

Please check your agent type and version and read on or switch to the right documentation.

First, please ensure you have an AWS account. You can sign up .

1. Launch an EC2 Instance:

  • Navigate to the EC2 dashboard and click on Launch Instance.

  • Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) such as Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.

  • Select t2.micro (part of the AWS Free Tier).

  • Select Proceed without a key pair

  • On the Configure Security Group step, create a new security group:

    • allow ssh traffic.

    • allow HTTPS traffic.

    • allow HTTP traffic.

  • Review and launch the instance.

2. Connect to the EC2 instance:

  • Navigate to your EC2 instance and click on Connect.

  • Leave the default parameters and click on Connect again.

  • Your are now connected to your instance.

3. Set up your instance:

The command lines in this step demonstrate how to install a Node.js agent. If you are running Forest Admin on another agent, please adapt the following to your specific stack.

  • Update the instance:

sudo yum update -y
  • Install Git:

sudo yum install git -y
  • Clone your repo:

git clone your-repo-link
  • Install Node.js and npm:

sudo yum install npm -y
  • Navigate to your project directory and install the necessary packages:

cd your-repo-directory
npm install
  • Set up all the necessary environment variables provided by the Forest Admin environment creation wizard.

  • Add the APPLICATION_PORT environment variable to be able to contact the server from outside. In this example, we will choose APPLICATION_PORT=3310. If you choose another port, please adapt the next steps accordingly.

  • Start the agent

npm run start:watch

4. Adjust security group rules:

  • Navigate to your EC2 instance's security group.

  • Click on Edit inbound rules.

  • Add a Custom TCP inbound rule to allow on port 3310.

5. Create a target group:

  • In the AWS Management Console, navigate to the EC2 service.

  • Under "Target Groups", click Create Target Groups.

  • Ensure target type is instance.

  • Choose HTTP to 3310.

  • Ensure VPC is set to the same VPC as your EC2 instance.

  • Setup the health checks as set to /forest.

  • On the next step, select instance and click on Include as pending below.

  • Finally create the target group.

6. Request a certificate using AWS Certificate Manager (ACM):

  • Navigate to ACM and click on Request a certificate.

  • Enter your domain name and validate the domain ownership using DNS validation.

  • After viewing the new created certificate, click on Create records in Route 53.

  • Wait for the certificate to be validated (this can take some time < 1mn).

7. Set up an Application Load Balancer (ALB):

  • In the AWS Management Console, navigate to the EC2 service.

  • Under "Load Balancers", click Create Load Balancer.

  • Choose Application Load Balancer and follow the setup.

  • Ensure the ALB is set to the same VPC as your EC2 instance.

  • Select all regions.

  • Remove default security group and select the group associated to the newly created instance.

  • Add an HTTPS listener and choose previously created target group and certificate.

  • After creating the ALB copy the DNS name.

8. Add CNAME to Route53:

  • Navigate to Route53 and choose your hosted zone (domain).

  • Create a CNAME record with the domain name filled in the certificate and the DNS name of the ALB.

9. Finalize:

Check your domain. You should be able to access your Forest Admin panel environment hosted on AWS. 🎉

This is a basic setup, and there are many optimizations and security enhancements (like using RDS, tightening security groups, etc.) that can be done for a production-ready deployment. Please refer to the to go deeper.

AWS documentation
@forestadmin/agent
forestadmin-agent-django
forestadmin-agent-flask
forestadmin/laravel-forestadmin
forestadmin/symfony-forestadmin
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