Deployment

This repository manages the infrastructure for our cloud-based services using Terraform and Terragrunt. It's structured to provision a variety of AWS resources and handle multiple environments with automatic workspace switching.

Infrastructure Components

The AWS resources provisioned by this repository include:

• CloudFront: Content Delivery Network (CDN) for distributing content with low latency.
• Elastic Container Registry (ECR): Docker container registry for storing, managing, and deploying container images.
• Elastic Container Service (ECS): Container orchestration service for running and scaling applications.
• Application Load Balancer (ALB): Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets.
• Route 53: DNS web service for reliable and cost-effective domain name lookup.
• CloudWatch: Monitoring and observability service for resource and application monitoring.
• IAM Roles: Securely control access to AWS services and resources.
• MQ: Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF): Protects web applications from common web exploits.
• Lambda: Event-driven, serverless computing platform.
• API Gateway: Service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing APIs.
• S3: Object storage service with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

Environments

• Staging: An isolated environment that closely resembles production. Used for testing.
• Production: The live environment where the application runs.

Features

• Workspace Switching: With Terragrunt, we automate the switching of workspaces to manage multiple environments, ensuring that the correct configuration is applied to the corresponding stage.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:

• Terraform
• Terragrunt

Usage

To initialize the Terraform configuration, run:

terraform init

To switch between workspaces for different environments, Terragrunt handles this automatically based on the configurations.

To apply the infrastructure changes, navigate to the environment-specific directory and run:

terragrunt apply