Automated Setup

[zackbloom]

It would be nice if there was an automated way of setting up the bucket/CORS/Policy/etc. and doing the upload to S3. You might want to take a look at Stout for example.

[matteobrusa]

Indeed, the setup is quite lengthy.
I've just discovered that AWS offers APIs for both CORS and policy, very nice!
Perhaps a client (browser) side app hosted on Github to bootstrap the instance? One would still need, though, to setup the user and relative permissions.
Hmm, food for thoughts...

[zackbloom]

I believe Stout does set up the user account and permissions.

[matteobrusa]

From what I read, Stout requires a "master" credentials set it uses to create specific users for each project.
It needs to start somewhere, and would be unwise to trust any app with the root AWS credentials.

[zackbloom]

I believe it just needs credentials which have the permissions required to do the actions we're talking about, set up an S3 bucket, create an IAM user, etc. I don't think this is gonna be avoidable if the goal is to make the setup automatic.

[monken]

Why not use CloudFormation?

[matteobrusa]

CloudFormation looks definitely interesting, if you have experience with it, feel free to contribute ;-)