/Udagram

Deploy a high-availability web app using CloudFormation

Primary LanguageShell

Udagram

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Description

Deploy a highly available web application using CloudFormaiton and nested stacks.

Installation

Download and install the AWS CLI tool.

Example install on Ubuntu

sudo apt install unzip
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

Configure AWS CLI to connect to AWS

  1. Run aws configure
  2. Paste Access Key
  3. Paste Secret Key
  4. Choose default region
  5. Choose default output format
  6. Verify:
aws s3 ls

Usage

Create an S3 bucket to house your stack templates.

Copy the stack templates to your bucket. Example:

aws --region us-west-2 s3 cp webapp.yml s3://<your_bucket>/webapp.yml

Copy the udacity.zip file in UDAGRAM\app\files to your new bucket. Example:

aws --region us-west-2 s3 cp udacity.zip s3://<your_bucket>/udacity.zip

Use the following deploy-nested-stack.sh script found in UDAGRAM\scripts

aws cloudformation deploy \
--stack-name $1
--template-file $2 \
--capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

In order to delete the stack run the following command:

aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name <your_stack_name>