kiran-az/enterpriselevelawsinfrastructure

Automation for the series of mini articles: The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure

Objectives

This repo contains AWS cloud formation scripts used to automate AWS infractructure setup presented in the series of mini articles The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure:

1. The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure – Architecture Scaffolding
2. The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure – EC2, AMI, Bastion Host, RDS
3. The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure – Load Balancing and Application Deployment

You can find live infrastructure setup recording here.

NOTE: The scripts lack automated application deployment scripts.

Usage guide

The repo contains two cloud formation stacks:

• The first one spins up networking part of the infrastructure (scaffolders) - infra-stack.yml. To create stack, simply run ./create-infra.sh script.

• The second stack is responsible for booting up VMs (AWS EC2) & MySql Database (AWS RDS) - vm-and-db-stack.yml. Accordingly, to start the stack run: ./create-vm-and-db.sh

Enhancements

To make the infrastructure even more resilient and scalable, we may use AWS Auto Scaling Groups instead of having 'hardcoded' EC2 instances configured in Cloud Formation script. Improved vm-and-db-stack that implements it, is available in ec2-auto-scaling GIT branch.