Overview

These cloudformation templates enable you to deploy a highly availbile ghost blog with RDS and utilizing S3 as the backend static content store.

Deployment instructions

• Code is written in AWS cloudformation templates with yaml formatting

• Do the following:

  • clone the repo to a local dir git clone git@github.com:csumpter/ops-challenge.git
  • Create a public S3 bucket on your aws account
  • open master.yaml on your computer in an editor of choice
    • change any reference to TemplateURL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghost-service/.../<file name here>.yaml to TemplateURL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/<your bucket name>/.../<file name here>.yaml
  • Upload the modified dir and all of its contents to the AWS S3 bucket.
  • Copy the S3 url of the master.yaml file. It should be https://s3.amazonaws.com/< your bucket name>/master.yaml
  • Take that url and go to the AWS console - Under 'Management Tools' go to - 'CloudFormation'
  • Click 'Create Stack'
  • Choose 'Specify an Amazon S3 template URL'
  • Paste your S3 master.yaml url
  • Click 'Next'
  • Provide a 'Stack Name'
  • Provide a 'DatabasePassword'
    • Other parameters are optional and prefilled
  • Click 'Next'
  • Click 'Next' again to go to the final setup page.
  • Check the box at the bottom 'I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names.'
  • Click 'Create'

  Your stack will now be created. This takes about 20-25 minutes under the current build.