Solution: Deployment Automation Sample

Various technologies, stacks and hacks were used for this task. Some of them are:

• Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - http://kernel.org and http://ubuntu.com)

• Bash (of course :-)

• nginx (https://www.nginx.com/)

• openssl (https://www.openssl.org/)

• supervisord (http://supervisord.org/)

• ssh (http://openssh.org )

• python ()

• boto ()

• ansible (https://www.ansible.com/)

• gunicorn (http://gunicorn.org)

• Amazon Web Service ()

• EC2

• VPC

• IAM

• aws-cli tools

To get started, download and excute the aws-app.sh script in a suitable location on your filesystem.

$ wget https://github.com/wsoyinka/opseng-challenge-app/blob/master/aws-app.sh
$ ./aws-app.sh
$ <Supply the password provided to decrypt sentsive information required for this process >

CHALLENGES

A few [minor] speedbumps were encountered in cobbling together this solution. Some were:

• Delibrate choice of OS version (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

• Improperly documentated changes/regressions in the internals of some of the major components

• Opaqueness of data structures in some of the bleeding edge ansible modules needed

SOLUTIONS

FUN FACTS