For this project, please think about how you would architect a scalable and secure static web application in AWS or another IaaS provider.
- Create and deploy a running instance of a web server using a configuration
- management tool of your choice. The web server should serve one page with the following content.
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
</body>
</html>- Secure this application and host such that only appropriate ports are publicly exposed and any http requests are redirected to https. This should be automated using a configuration management tool of your choice and you should feel free to use a self-signed certificate for the web server.
- Develop and apply automated tests to validate the correctness of the server configuration.
- Express everything in code.
- Provide your code in a Git repository named SREChallenge on GitHub.com
- Be prepared to walk though your code, discuss your thought process, and talk through how you might monitor and scale this application. You should also be able to demo a running instance of the host.
This is an infrastructure as code project that utilizes Terraform/Ansible/Goss/AWS to programmatically configure an autoscaling WebServer cluster behind an elastic load balancer endpoint to serve up a scalable, self-healing hello-world application within Amazon Web Services!
For instructions on setting up this cluster in AWS, see the terraform folder README
For information on how the web server infrastructure is configured, see the ansible folder README.