AppRunner VPC Connector Demo

Note: This is not Production grade and simply meant as a demo

Description

This project provisions the base layer infrastructure to demonstrate how AppRunner leverages a VPC Connector to interact with a DB in a private subnet.

AWS Services

VPC (private + public subnets, IGW, NGW)
Aurora MySQL in private subnet
VPC Connector for AppRunner and requisite security groups
Secrets Manager for DB credentials with rotation enabled

Deployment Instructions

Note: Use us-east-1 only

Create a Cloudformation stack using infra.yaml
Deploy the application using the AppRunner Console.
- Source
  - Point to your Github repo
- Configure Build
  - Runtime: Nodejs 14
  - Build command: npm install
  - Start command: npm start
  - Port: 8080 (default)
- Configure service
  - Environment variable:
    - secret: Secrets Manager secret name (Provisioned by infra.yaml)
  - Security: AppRunnerV2NInstanceRole (Provisioned by infra.yaml)
  - Networking:
    - Custom VPC: AppRunnerV2NPrototype-RDS-Connector (Provisioned by infra.yaml)
  - Observability: Enable Tracing with AWS X-Ray

Teardown Instructions

Go to AppRunner console and delete the service.
Go to Cloudformation and delete the stack.

Notes

This demo Hotel rooms Display list of hotel rooms

setup npm

  npm install express
  npm install mysql

start application

  npm start

build a image

  docker build -t hotel-demo .