AWS CDK Stack for the LanguageTool deployment on the AWS Cloud

This repository contains a AWS CDK definition to deploy LanguageTool as containerized application container on AWS Cloud, using AWS Elastic Container Server with AWS Fargate.

LanguageTool is an Open Source proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Russian, and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.

Deployment rely on the Dockerfile to create a Docker image from the docker-languagetool.

Infrastructure

The following infrastructure will be deployed to support the language tool execution on the AWS Cloud:

Figure 1. Infrastructure

Pre-requisites

For the deployment you need to have the following dependencies:

AWS Account
Docker installed on you machine
AWS CDK installed on you machine
GoLang installed on you machine
DNS zone delegated to Route53

Deployment

To deploy the application into the AWS Cloud, you need to configure your aws credentials.

Set the following environment variables

Variable	Description
hostedZoneID	Route53 hosted zone ID.
hostedZoneName	Route53 hosted zone name.
langToolDomainName	domain name to be used by the language
langToolAPIName	subdomain to be used by the language API Access
langToolWebName	subdomain to be used by the language Web Access

Example:

export hostedZoneID=ZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX2
export hostedZoneName=example.co.uk
export langToolDomainName=languagetoolv2.example.co.uk
export langToolAPIName=api
export langToolWebName=web

Initiate deployment

git clone https://github.com/mrvladis/aws-language-tool.git --config core.autocrlf=input
git clone https://github.com/Erikvl87/docker-languagetool.git ./language-tool-ecs-fargate/docker/
cd language-tool-ecs-fargate/cdk
cdk bootstrap
cdk deploy

Plugin configuration

Language Tool has a plugin for Chrome.

Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool

https://languagetool.org/chrome