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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By : Maxwell Flitton
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Rust Web Programming - Second Edition

By: Maxwell Flitton

Overview of this book

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications? With this practical Rust book, you’ll discover how you can implement Rust on the web to achieve the desired performance and security as you learn techniques and tooling to build fully operational web apps. In this second edition, you’ll get hands-on with implementing emerging Rust web frameworks, including Actix, Rocket, and Hyper. It also features HTTPS configuration on AWS when deploying a web application and introduces you to Terraform for automating the building of web infrastructure on AWS. What’s more, this edition also covers advanced async topics. Built on the Tokio async runtime, this explores TCP and framing, implementing async systems with the actor framework, and queuing tasks on Redis to be consumed by a number of worker nodes. Finally, you’ll go over best practices for packaging Rust servers in distroless Rust Docker images with database drivers, so your servers are a total size of 50Mb each. By the end of this book, you’ll have confidence in your skills to build robust, functional, and scalable web applications from scratch.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1:Getting Started with Rust Web Development
4
Part 2:Processing Data and Managing Displays
8
Part 3:Data Persistence
12
Part 4:Testing and Deployment
16
Part 5:Making Our Projects Flexible
19
Part 6:Exploring Protocol Programming and Async Concepts with Low-Level Network Applications

Deploying our application on AWS

Even though we have packaged our Rust application in Docker, we have not run our Rust application in a Docker container. Before we run our Rust application on a server on AWS, we should run our Rust application locally. This will help us understand how a simple deployment works without having to build servers.

Running our application locally

When it comes to running our application locally, we will be using docker-compose with the following layout:

Figure 10.16 – Structure for local deployment

Figure 10.16 – Structure for local deployment

Here, we can see that the NGINX container takes in traffic from outside of the docker-compose network and directs the traffic to the appropriate container. Now that we understand our structure, we can define our docker-compose file. First, we need to make a directory called deployment next to our build, front_end, and web_app directories. Our general layout for our docker-compose.yml file in our deployment directory takes...