sophiasagan/udacity_cloudformation

Udacity Udagram project

Deploying a highly available web app using AWS Cloudfront

About the project

Deploying a highly available web app - Udagram - an Instagram like web app Udacity project demonstrating deploying a webapp using infrastructure as code on AWS Cloudformation.

Scenario

Your company is creating an Instagram clone called Udagram.

Developers want to deploy a new application to the AWS infrastructure.

You have been tasked with provisioning the required infrastructure and deploying a dummy application, along with the necessary supporting software.

This needs to be automated so that the infrastructure can be discarded as soon as the testing team finishes their tests and gathers their results.

Solution diagram

Cloudformation Stacks

• UdagramNetwork
• UdagramServers

Rubric

Basics

Criteria	Meets Specifications
Parameters	Parameter files should contain 1 or more params
Resources	Must include a LoadBalancer, LaunchConfig, AutoscalingGroup health check, security groups, Listener and Target Group
Outputs	Application URL i.e. Load Balancer DNS with 'http'
Working Test	Display Apache2 Ubuntu Server Default Page

Load Balancer

Criteria	Meets Specifications
Target Group	The auto-scaling group needs to have a property that associates it with a target group. The Load Balancer will have a Listener rule associated with the same target group
Health Check and Listener	Port 80 should be used in Security groups, health checks and listeners associated with the load balancer

Auto-Scaling

Criteria	Meets Specifications
Subnets	Use PRIV-NET ( private subnets ) for auto-scaling instances
Machine Specs	The machine should have 10 GB or more of disk and should be a t3.small or better
SSH Key	There shouldn’t be a ‘keyname’ property in the launch config

Bonus

Criteria	Meets Specifications
Output	Any values in the output section are a bonus

http://udagr-webap-1v58c8s3300mq-1626748625.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/

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