How to deploy the music player

1 Launch VMs

First choose Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type for target VM

And from provided types choose t2.micro which has 1 vCPU 1GiB memeory and 8GB Instance Storage

If there is more than 1 server it's efficient to keep all instances under same subnet.

2 VM Configurations

2.1 Servers

Details: here

2.2 Load Balancers

For a sample music player the load balancer is not required. If you wish not to set up one please jump to Step #3

Depends on how many workload users will generate, the numbers of load balancer will change, for example now you can depoly one load balancer with 3 back-end servers.

Details: here

3 Create local project files

3.1 Web page coding

Write the player main screen use html and css. For sample the code has been upload to github here and here.

3.2 Including *.mp3 files

Required files has been upload to here

4 Download and update codes and files in step 3 through github

On servers

use

$ cd /var/www/html

to locate apache2 root directory

use

$ sudo git clone https://github.com/Exodus000/CloudComputingProj.git
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3.git

to clone the repo to current directory

and

$ sudo git pull 

to make a update

move the compentonts to the html directory

sudo mv CloudComputingProj/* /var/www/html

5 Install apache2 and php

which has been includes in step 2

6 How to start the application

Simply visit [Music Player] and it will start automatically

And now click play button after song you like it will start playing, click download it will generate a browser download action.