Infrastructure

Technology Stack

• AWS as a cloud provider
• Terraform Cloud provides remote operations for Terraform
• Terraform HCL infrastructure as code (IaC)

AWS Stack

• ECR - storage for all Docker images
• ECS - service for running containers on EC2 instances
• EC2 - instance for running application
• RDS - instance for running a cloud database (PostgreSQL)
• ElastiCache - instance for running a key-value database (Redis)
• ALB - tool for balancing all the requests pushed
• S3 - object service storage
• CloudWatch - storage for logs

How to setup?

• Setup [Terraform CLI 12.X](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli)
• Add next credentials (REGION, ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET_KEY) to
  • ~/.aws/credentials
  • ~/.aws/config
• Override all boilerplate name in .terraform
• Sign up to Terraform Cloud -) Create two workspaces staging and production. In each workspace add terraform variables:
  • DB_PASSWORD
  • DB_USERNAME
  • AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
  • AWS_SERCET_ACCESS_KEY
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• Attention!

Add your ssh public key to the

• .terraform/staging/ssh_keys/boilerplate-api-staging.pub
• .terraform/staging/ssh_keys/boilerplate-api-production.pub.
• Move to .terraform/staging perform
  • terraform login
  • terraform init
  • terraform applay - to raise STAGING server
• Move to .terraform/production perform
  • terraform login
  • terraform init
  • terraform applay to raise PRODUCTION server
• Check AWS resources and terraform state on terraform cloud!