Infrastructure as Code

[calebsyring]

This project includes some setup tasks that need to be completed every time we start up a new instance of the app:

• Table creation/migration
• Schedule run_due_checks to run every minute

Let's keep a running list and make sure we handle them in a programmatic/reproducible way.

[calebsyring]

We should be able to do both of these in python with Amazon CDK for infrastructure as code. Confirm that decision w/ Level 12. Maybe they'd rather we use terraform or something.

[calebsyring]

@rsyring where would you like Critic's infrastructure as code to go?

[calebsyring]

I'll use Terraform in this repo (or extend mu to do what we need).

[calebsyring]

Mu can handle the scheduling stuff.

For the DDB tables, we should use terraform to manage each table in prod, qa, and dev (tables for each dev).

The tables will be namespaced, and we should pass the prefix/suffix via env variables.

[rsyring]

Mu can handle the scheduling stuff.

Example:

https://github.com/level12/mu/blob/eb9d5725f2c27144759fa7163761cc3fa2efc4a1/examples/mu_hello/mu.toml#L18

[calebsyring]

I've got this mostly done on a branch. Just need to update mu to handle more dynamic config.