egFWD Advanced Cloud DevOps project 3:

Give your Application Auto-Deploy Superpowers

In this project, you will prove your mastery of the following learning objectives:

• Explain the fundamentals and benefits of CI/CD to achieve, build, and deploy automation for cloud-based software products.
• Utilize Deployment Strategies to design and build CI/CD pipelines that support Continuous Delivery processes.
• Utilize a configuration management tool to accomplish deployment to cloud-based servers.
• Surface critical server errors for diagnosis using centralized structured logging.

CI/CD Pipeline Diagram

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Project specifications

• A text file named urls.txt including:
  ^{Note that the URLs are broken now, because the infrastructure was destroyed after completing the project.}

  Specifications	Proof	Meets specifications
  Public Url to GitHub repository (not private)	URL01	✓
  Public URL for your S3 Bucket (aka, your green candidate front-end)	URL02	✓
  Public URL for your CloudFront distribution (aka, your blue production front-end)	URL03	✓
  Public URLs to deployed application back-end in EC2	URL04	✓
  Public URL to your Prometheus Server	URL05	✓

• Your screenshots in JPG or PNG format, named using the screenshot number listed in the instructions.

  Specifications	Proof	Meets specification
  Job failed because of compile errors.	SCREENSHOT01	✓
  Job failed because of unit tests.	SCREENSHOT02	✓
  Job that failed because of vulnerable packages.	SCREENSHOT03	✓
  An alert from one of your failed builds.	SCREENSHOT04	✓
  Appropriate job failure for infrastructure creation.	SCREENSHOT05	✓
  Appropriate job failure for the smoke test job.	SCREENSHOT06	✓
  Successful rollback after a failed smoke test.	SCREENSHOT07	✓
  Successful promotion job.	SCREENSHOT08	✓
  Successful cleanup job.	SCREENSHOT09	✓
  Only deploy on pushed to master branch.	SCREENSHOT10	✓
  Provide a screenshot of a graph of your EC2 instance including available memory, available disk space, and CPU usage. Note that 3 screenshots are required	node free memory, node CPU usage, node disk usage.	✓
  Provide a screenshot of an alert that was sent by Prometheus.	SCREENSHOT12	✓

• Your presentation should be in PDF format and named presentation.pdf. ✓

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Built With

• Circle CI - Cloud-based CI/CD service
• Amazon AWS - Cloud services
• AWS CLI - Command-line tool for AWS
• CloudFormation - Infrastrcuture as code
• Ansible - Configuration management tool
• Prometheus - Monitoring tool

License

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