seunsmooth / hrapp

Techbleat DevOps Training Project 2!

The project is aimed at utilizing a number of tooling and technologies you have picked up over the classes.

Project Description

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The project is an HR application implemented in Flask (Python).

AWS Services

RDS/ Postgres Database Load balancer(s) Route 53 TLS Certificate SES ( potentially) CloudWatch EC2

Objectives

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Help build and deploy a HR Management Portal into an Organisation Infrastructure

1. We need to build the hardware infrastructure to host the application
2. We need a CICD to manage infrastructure and application build
3. Need to build resilence into the system
4. Add Monitoring
5. Make it easy to use

Approach

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1. Watch the 2 videos that describe in details what is to be done and how
2. Find a group/supportign team ( reach out to the tutor if need be)
3. Try the project manually first, to get a hand of the components and services required

Biilding and Using App

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1. git clone xxxxxxx
2. cd xxxx
3. docker build -t hrapp.v1 .
4. docker run docker run -p 80:5000 -e POSTGRES_HOST=project.xxxxxxxxx.amazonaws.com -e POSTGRES_USER=project -e POSTGRES_DATABASE_NAME=postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx -e TO_ADDRESS=[e-mail] -e SOURCE_ADDRESS=[e-mail] -e AWS_REGION_NAME=eu-west-1
   -e AWS_ACCESS_NAME=AKxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   -e AWS_KEY_NAME=xxxx/xxxx/xxx+qlHbY7g

Architecture

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1. high availability system
2. Fault Tolerant system

Environment Setup

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1. Two or more instances of the application
2. CICD Pipeline to managment the Environment
3. Monitoring and Alerting (Prometheus /Grafana)

Possible tools/utilities to leverage

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1. Terraform
2. Jenkins
3. Ansible
4. Docker
5. Prometheus
6. Grafana

Support Materials

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