Deploy a high-availability web app using CloudFormation
Author: Van Thong(George) Lee
Project Requirements
The Basics
CRITERIA
MEETS SPECIFICATIONS
COMPLETED
Parameters
The more the better, but an exaggerated number of parameters can be messy ( say, 10 or more ). 1 or 0 is definitely lacking.
✅
Resources
This is the mandatory section of the script, we are looking for a LoadBalancer, Launch Configuration, AutoScaling group a health check, security groups and a Listener and Target Group.
✅
Outputs
This is optional, but it would be nice to have a URL here with the Load Balancer DNS Name and “http” in front of it .
✅
Working Test
If the student provides a URL to verify his work is running properly, it will be a page that says “it works! Udagram, Udacity”
✅
Load Balancer
CRITERIA
MEETS SPECIFICATIONS
COMPLETED
Target Group
The auto-scaling group needs to have a property that associates it with a target group. The Load Balancer will have a Listener rule associated with the same target group
✅
Health Check and Listener
Port 80 should be used in Security groups, health checks and listeners associated with the load balancer
✅
Auto-Scaling
CRITERIA
MEETS SPECIFICATIONS
COMPLETED
Subnets
Students should be using PRIV-NET ( private subnets ) for their auto-scaling instances
✅
Machine Specs
The machine should have 10 GB or more of disk and should be a t3.small or better.
✅
SSH Key
There shouldn’t be a ‘keyname’ property in the launch config
✅
Bonus
CRITERIA
MEETS SPECIFICATIONS
COMPLETED
Output
Any values in the output section are a bonus
✅
Bastion Host
Any resource of type AWS::EC2::Instance, optional, but nice to have.
