Tornado Web Test

Summmary

This repo builds and deploys a simple Tornado web app and server both locally using test kitchen and remotely using chef provisioning.

Prerequisite Software For All Methods

Install the following software packages (these instructions assume you are using a recent version of Mac OS X):

Chef Development Kit

To run the local development environment install the following:

Virtual Box

Vagrant

Install packages to spin up infrastructure

  chef gem install chef-provisioning-aws chef-provisioning

Build with Test Kitchen locally

This will build a local environment and run infrastructure tests on the built server / VM.

  kitchen verify

Destroy local Test Kitchen

  kitchen destroy

How to Create Infrastructure on Amazon AWS

Configure your local AWS environment according to this guide: Credential Setup or use the following steps if you already have your access key and secret:

Create the .aws directory:

  mkdir ~/.aws

Then edit both config files as below:

  vi ~/.aws/credentials

  [default]
  aws_access_key_id=keyhere
  aws_secret_access_key=secretkeyhere

  vi ~/.aws/config

  [default]
  region=us-east-1
  output=json

Generate a key for Chef Provisioning

  ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f .chef/keys/ref-key-pair-eni

Run the following command using chef provisioning:

  chef-client -z amazon_ec2.rb

Destroy Amazon Infrastructure

  chef-client -z amazon_ec2_destroy.rb

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