如果我有一个 React 前端和一个微服务后端，我可以有两个部署目标（S3 用于前端，EKS 用于后端）吗？

Question

Having built a static frontend, my thought was to deploy this to a static assets server like S3, while deploying my microservices backend using kubernetes to a compute service like EC2 or EKS.

However, my research has only turned up one approach: building the frontend as a service in my kubernetes cluster.

My questions:

1. Is it possible to have two deployment targets like my thought above?
2. If possible, what are the pros/cons to doing so (in particular, will communication between frontend & backend be tricky?)
3. Are there any other deployment approaches to consider besides these two?

For additional context, my frontend is a React app built through create-react-app, and I've already extracted by production build. My backend comprises of several NodeJS microservices.

Answer 1

Is it possible to have two deployment targets like my thought above?

Yes, it is possible.

If possible, what are the pros/cons to doing so (in particular, will communication between frontend & backend be tricky?)

In the case of a static frontend, the browser (client) talks to the backend, as long as the user is able to communicate with the backend, everything should be fine.

Are there any other deployment approaches to consider besides these two?

You can deploy your frontend anywhere, you can check out other options like https://www.netlify.com/ and https://vercel.com/

This article should give you a better understanding of Kubernetes with similar architecture https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-kubernetes-in-under-3-hours-a-detailed-guide-to-orchestrating-containers-114ff420e882/