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Simplest EC2 deploy

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Server manifesto

Provisioning + Deploying is too complicated, lets do the minimum amount of work to build a safe, performant server. The following opinionated rules are followed:

Applications have their own user and group.
Environment variables are used for app configuration

System update

apt-get update Updates apt-get's local database with server's pkglist's files.

Git install

apt-get -y install git-core Install git using apt-get, the -y argument means say yes to any questions