Servian Tech Challenge - DevOps

Tools used

• Terraform
• AWS Cli
• Git
• Docker
• jq
• Bash

Architecture Diagram

Components

• Application load balancer to receive and distribute traffic through to app servers
• App are hosted in AWS ECS Fargate across two AZs in the same region
• Database layer using RDS Aurora Postgres with read replica across AZs
• App image is hosted in ECR

Todos

• Add application repo as a submodule

• Build a docker image for the app

• Create ECR repository using AWS Cli

• Push image to ECR

• Provisioning Infrastructure in Terraform

  • Networking
  • Security Groups
  • IAM roles
  • Database
  • Application Load Balancer
  • ECS Fargate

• Seed the database

• Instructions on how to use the project

• Better console output for user experience

How to run the project

Please make you the correct AWS credentials are configured before running the following commands.

# one command to spin up everything
make start

# Tear down
make destroy

More ideas

• Refactor terraform components into modules for better reusability
• Create tests for terraform modules
• Migrate makefile logic to CI/CD pipeline
• Move state to a remote backend
• Map a domain to load balancer dns name in route53 & enable HTTPS for connection