End-to-End AWS Infrastructure Deployment: Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, and Live Data Visualization with Metabase

This repository showcases a complete deployment of a PHP application on AWS using Terraform, Docker, AWS CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.

Table of Contents

• Project Overview
• Getting Started
• Infrastructure Setup
• CI/CD Pipeline
• Domain and SSL Configuration
• Monitoring

Project Overview

This project demonstrates the following key aspects:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automated deployment of AWS resources including VPC with private subnets using Terraform.
• AWS Services: Deployment of EC2 instances, RDS, S3, and more.
• Application Setup: Nginx and PHP applications deployed using Docker containers.
• CI/CD Pipeline: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using AWS CodeDeploy.
• Security: SSL certificates configuration via Cloudflare.
• Live Visualization: Metabase BI tool for monitoring the RDS MySQL database.
• Access Management: Secure access to private resources using a jump server.

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running, follow these steps.

Prerequisites

• AWS Account
• Terraform
• Docker
• AWS CLI
• Cloudflare Account

Installation

1. Configure AWS CLI:

aws configure

Infrastructure Setup

1. Apply Terraform Configuration:

terraform init

terraform plan
terraform apply

2. Access Jump Server:

ssh -i your-key.pem ec2-user@jump-server-ip

3. Access Backend Server via Jump Server:

ssh -i your-key.pem ec2-user@private-vm-ip

CI/CD Pipeline

1. Setup Docker and Docker-Compose:

• Ensure Docker and Docker-Compose are installed on the deployment servers.

2. Configure CodeDeploy:

• Use the provided appspec.yml and buildspec.yml files to setup CodeDeploy.

3. Deploy Applications:

• Deploy Nginx and PHP applications using Docker containers.

Domain and SSL Configuration

1. Domain Setup:

• Configure your domain with Cloudflare.

2. SSL Certificates:

• Add a CNAME record in Cloudflare to get free SSL certificates for your domain.

Monitoring

1. Setup Metabase:

• Deploy Metabase using Docker.

• Configure Metabase to monitor the RDS MySQL database.