JacobBHartman / feoh

Automated infrastructure for personal use

feoh

URL: bovine.biz

Feoh is 3 things:

1. Demonstration of DevOps toolkit
2. API platform for cattle-related ranching
3. A demo application that uses the API

Prerequisites

Arch Linux

• Arch Linux Rolling Release
• Terraform 0.13.5
• Git 2.29.2

Mac (mostly untested)

• Mac Mojave 10.14.6
• Terraform TBD
• Git TBD

Software

These are the versions of the major software I used. These are not prerequisites for you to run the app.

• Rails 6.0.3.4
• Ruby 2.7.2
• Node 12.19.0
• sqlite3 3.27.2 (not currently static)
• yarn 1.22.5 (not currently static)

Install

# copy and paste assuming you have the prerequisites
git clone https://github.com/JacobBHartman/feoh.git
cd feoh

Purpose

The purposes of this project are to...

1. demonstrate my ability to acquire proficiency in technologies that I haven't worked with before
   • Ruby on Rails
   • A database other than MySQL, so I'll probably go with PostgreSQL and get to touch SQLite
   • Implement my own caching
   • If it makes sense, Vue
2. demonstrate a complete aptitude for the DevOps toolkit including:
   • Jenkins, might switch to Gitlab or something else to learn something new
   • Docker to get it out the door, but will use LXC if I have time and have determined it makes sense
   • Terraform, though I wouldn't mind toying with Pulumi
   • Ansible, I used Saltstack but didn't like it. I previously used Ansible and liked it alot. It seems to be the most popular.
   • Kubernetes, do I need to look into Rancher?
   • Helm, do I need this, how does it help me? This project should help answer those questions.
   • Bash, use best practices for scripting
   • AWS, I risk pigeonholing myself in AWS further but if I want to get frisky I can switch to GCP
   • System design and justification
3. build a project that I've been wanting to build for two years now

Topics to add to README

• Configuration
• Database creation
• Database initialization
• How to run the test suite
• Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)
• Deployment instructions

Scope

I define project scope using Github Projects

• Stage 0: Go through the Ruby tutorial
• Stage 1: Get an MVP of Terraform, Ansible, Docker-Compose, AWS, and Jenkins together with the Ruby app
• Stage 2 (in-progress): Build a proper Docker-Swarm, harden security, look at best practices for all tools, build the ruby app for cows

Dev Diary

Located in /dev/diary

To-Do

Handled by Github's Issue Tracking

Contributers

Jacob Hartman Github: JacobBHartman