Deep dive/discussion of Avalon Cloudformation script

[davidschober]

Description

Provisioning the Avalon in AWS environment is handled via cloud formation scripts. It is critical the Devops team have time to understand how the scripts work and what they do. MBK will give an overview, and point to any training.

Done looks like

• the teams feel comfortable with cloud formation

[mbklein]

CloudFormation templates and build scripts: https://github.com/mbklein/aws/tree/infrastructure

[davidschober]

@Toputnal and @d-venckus you two started digging into this correct?

[Toputnal]

I have read through the Avalon Cloudformation script and have been reading about AWS, watching videos about AWS, creating EC2 instances and deleting them (by hand, not programmatically), etc. So, I have approximately half a clue now. ;-)

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[davidschober]

@d-venckus did you get a chance to review these? I'll move to in-progress.

[davidschober]

I think we're calling this done. Feel free to reopen.