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-# scalable-employee-mgmt-portal
+# Scalable Employee Mgmt Portal
 Scalable Employee Management Portal
+
+# Motivation:
+In today's world, our application should be able to handle multiple requests from customers all around the world. So it is important to make an application fault-tolerant and able to scale as the need of the demand. This post talks about how to create a scalable web application using various AWS services like Load Balancers, Target Groups, Auto Scaling, Launch Configuration, Amazon Machine Image(AMI), Route 53, and so on.
+
+# Architecture:
+![architecture](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13358738/123594750-d257a380-d80f-11eb-9549-ba81fa0b3b36.png)
+
+# Prerequisites:
+1. AWS EC2
+2. AWS AMI
+3. Load Balancer
+4. Auto Scaling Groups
+5. MySQL Instance
+6. Route 53
+
+# Replication Steps:
+1. Create a config.ini file
+```bash
+[MYSQL]
+user=
+password=
+host=
+database=
+```
+2. Commands to confgure the application
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:codexponent/scalable-employee-mgmt-portal.git
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+python main.py
+```
+3. Create a reboot cronjob for the AMI Image
+```bash
+touch run.sh
+echo "#!/bin/bash 
+python main.py" > run.sh
+
+crontab -e
+@reboot /home/ec2-user/scalable-employee-mgmt-portal/run.sh
+```
+4. Start to create AMI Image written on the post.