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Version: 1.1.0

Infrastructure

Explore the resources, pipelines, and integrations of the project.

Cloud Provider​

This project is hosted on AWS, utilizing the following resources:

  • CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool.
  • Elastic Container Registry (ECR): Private Docker registry.
  • Elastic Container Service (ECS): Container management.
  • CloudWatch: Logging service.
  • Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): Routing, load balancing, and SSL termination.
  • VPC and Public Subnet: Networking components.
  • Route 53: Domain management service.

All these resources are automatically created and configured using a set of CloudFormation templates.

Infrastructure

note

Initially this infrastructure had the postgres database deployed on an AWS RDS instance.
That worked like a charm, but it was expensive, so I decided to change the implementation to have a container inside the ecs service running a postgresql image.

The container uses an EFS file system to persist the postgresql data in case the instance goes down at for any reason.

This is not ideal, but is cheaper, and as a side project, costs are more important than reliability/security at this point.

CI/CD​

The CI/CD pipeline for this project is managed by GitHub Actions. It handles:

  • Testing
  • Lint checking
  • Building
  • Deploying the infrastructure and application to AWS