DEPLOY A HIGHLY AVAILABLE WEB APPLICATION ON AWS WITH CLOUDFORMATION

THE BUSINESS GOAL

A company is creating an Instagram clone called Udagram. Developers want to deploy a new application to the AWS infrastructure. This repository contains code to provisioning the required infrastructure and deploying the application, along with the necessary supporting software.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

1. AWS Account
2. Install and configure AWS CLI
3. Create an s3 bucket
4. Upload a simple static website as a zip file to the s3 bucket (Launch config will copy this file to your ec2 instances)

PROJECT FILES

1. network-stack.yaml file - code to setup the network infrastructure (VPC -Public and Private Subnets -Internet Gateway -NAT Gateway -Elastic IP address and -Route Tables)
2. server-stack.yaml file - code to create the compute resources (Load Balancer -Autoscaling Group - IAM roles - Target Groups -EC2 Launch configuration)
3. network-parameters.json file - Network parameters
4. server-parameters.json file - Compute parameters

STEPS

1. clone repository
2. navigate to the cloned folder
3. run this command aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name network-stack --region us-east-1 --template-body file://network-stack.yml --parameters file://network-params.json to create the network infrastructure
4. run this command aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name compute-stack --region us-east-1 --template-body file://server-stack.yml --parameters file://server-params.json --capabilities "CAPABILITY_IAM" "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM" to create the compute infrastructure