infrastructure

Deployment/Infrastructure

Starter Pack is deployed to AWS on S3. CloudFront is used as a CDN. Route 53 is used for DNS.

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Deployment Prerequisites

All commands below must be run in the /infrastructure directory.

To deploy to AWS, you must:

1. Install Terraform and make sure it is in your PATH.
2. Set your AWS credentials using one of the following options:
   1. Set your credentials as the environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
   2. Run aws configure and fill in the details it asks for.
   3. Run on an EC2 instance with an IAM Role.

Deploying infrastructure

1. Configure Terraform to use Remote State using the following command: terraform remote config -backend=s3 -backend-config="bucket=YOUR_BUCKET_NAME" -backend-config="key=starter-pack.tfstate" -backend-config="region=YOUR_REGION" -backend-config="encrypt=true"
2. terraform plan -var-file starter-pack.tfvars
3. terraform apply -var-file starter-pack-2.tfvars

Updating infrastructure

1. Make necessary infrastructure code changes.
2. Configure Terraform to use Remote State using the following command: terraform remote config -backend=s3 -backend-config="bucket=YOUR_BUCKET_NAME" -backend-config="key=starter-pack.tfstate" -backend-config="region=YOUR_REGION" -backend-config="encrypt=true"
3. terraform plan -var-file starter-pack.tfvars
4. terraform apply -var-file starter-pack-2.tfvars

Destroying infrastructure (use with care)

1. Configure Terraform to use Remote State using the following command: terraform remote config -backend=s3 -backend-config="bucket=YOUR_BUCKET_NAME" -backend-config="key=starter-pack.tfstate" -backend-config="region=YOUR_REGION" -backend-config="encrypt=true"
2. terraform plan -var-file starter-pack.tfvars