Deploy a highly available web application using CloudFormation

The scripts in this folder will deploy the infrastructure and 4 web servers in AWS for a highly available web app using CloudFormation. A bastion host can be deployed in one of the public networks in case of troubleshooting is needed.

Infrastructure Overview

Prerequisites

• AWS account

• Install awscli

• Configure awscli

• s3 bucket

• create and copy to your s3 bucket udacity.zip file containg basic index.html

Usage

cloudFormAWS.sh will create/update a stack in AWS. 3 arguments are requiered - stack name, file containig template body and file containing the parameters.

Clone the Github repository and run create.sh or update.sh:

git clone https://github.com/donkodimov/devops.git
cd devops/Project-2

Make file executable:

sudo chmod +x cloudFormAWS.sh

Replace the name of the s3 bucket in udagram-servers.yaml with the name of your s3 bucket:

aws s3 cp s3://YOUR-S3-BUCKET/udacity.zip .

Examples

To deploy the networking components run command:

./cloudFormAWS.sh udagram-net udagram-infra.yaml udagram-infra.json

To deploy the servers, security roles and software run command:

./cloudFormAWS.sh udagram-servers udagram-servers.yaml udagram-servers.json

To deploy the bastion host run command:

./cloudFormAWS.sh Bastion jumpbox.yaml jumpbox-parameters.json

License

The contents of this repository are covered under the GNU General Public License.