xylophone-deploy

Deploy the xylophone website with Chef/Packer and Terraform

Usage

The repo includes scripts under ./scripts for most of the steps. This includes wrapper scripts for the packer and terraform commands, as well as a full deploy script.

The packer and terraform scripts rely on the default-env.sh file to setup the appropriate environment variables for passing args to the commands. This is the primary data that would need to be updated to run in a different environment, and can all be overridden by setting the environment variables used in default-env.sh. They also rely on the AWS key env vars as packer and terraform do by default.

deploy.sh - calls the packer and terraform wrapper scripts required to build / update the entire infrastructure. This script does not run 'terraform init', so the scripts/tf-init.sh will need to be run the first time the scripts are used from a fresh checkout of the repo.

packer-build.sh - runs packer build with the proper environment to create the ami. Stores the AMI ID in the AMI for use by the terraform scripts.

tf-init.sh - wrapper to run terraform init from the correct location with the proper environment. Needs to be run before any of the terraform scripts, or the full deploy script.

tf-plan.sh - wrapper to run terraform plan from the correct location with the proper environment.

tf-apply.sh - wrapper to run terraform apply from the correct location with the proper environment.

tf-destroy.sh - wrapper to run terraform destroy from the correct location with the proper environment.

Testing

There are unit and integration tests for the included cookbook.

Unit Tests

The unit tests are a basic Serverspec setup.

cd xylophone-cookbook && rspec

Integrations Tests

These are a basic Test Kitchen setup. The can be run manually, or by a CI system, as follows:

cd xylophone-cookbook && kitchen test

License and Authors