Launch & Learn

Launch & Learn abstracts away the launch of AWS CloudFormation templates. Easily provide fresh environments to your workshop participants with a click of a button.

Development

Resources

• Trello Board
• Snap CI Build
• Production Environment

Requirements

(Vagrantfile is on its way)

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• AWS Secret & Access Key
  • You should use an AIM user instead of root
  • Needs full permission to EC2 and CloudFront

Getting Started

1. Load AWS Credentials into environment variables: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
2. Start MongoDB
3. npm install to install dependencies
4. npm start to run application (I prefer nodemon for development with nodemon bin/www)
5. Create a new project from /admin (default password is admin)
6. Navigate to your new project at /projectName
7. Click Launch VM to deploy your template

Running Tests

... tests? Will be setting up mocha and istanbul one day