Deploy backend app to EKS.

This template deploys an example Django backend api into EKS.

Following AWS products are being used:

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications
• Amazon Application Load balancer Load balance HTTP and HTTPS traffic with advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern applications.
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.
• Amazon Relational Database service is a collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Choose from seven popular engines

Following Kubernetes resources are being used:

TODO

Getting Started

Install prerequisites with:

npm install

Configuration

Configure the template using pulumi config set dirname:key value

Example:

pulumi config set backend-api-aws:clusterName david-eks

EKS config

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |-------------------|---------|----------|---------------------------------------| | clusterName | string | Yes | Cluster name EKS | | port | number | Yes | Port number of the app being deployed | imageUrl | string | Yes | Image url that is located inside ECR
| replica | number | Yes | Amount of replicas in k8s app | | deployDashboard | boolean | Yes | Enable kubernetes dashboard |

RDS config

| Name | Type | Required | Description | | ------------------------- |--------|----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | dbName | string | Yes | Database name (must begin with a letter and contain alphanumeric chars) | | engine | string | Yes | SQL engine, just try the default "postgres" havent tried others
| userName | string | Yes | Database user
| password | string | Yes | Database password |

TODO in future

• Swap out Helm chart for native pulumi ALB
• Fix A record for the ALB to make backend domain more nice
• Fix HTTPS so it can be connected to the deployed frontend from the other template
• ECR hardcoded, maybe fix in future?

Frequent modules bugs and problems