Terraform Example Project for Automating Ember App Deployment

This project contains sample code to illustrate some of the key capabilities of Terraform. There are 2 modules hosting and ci.

The hosting module is a declaration of the components and configuration necessary in order to host an Ember application. This consists of S3 Bucket, a Cloudfront Distribution and Cloudflare DNS entry pointing to the distribution, and all necessary Roles and Policies

The ci module contains a CodeBuild Project, Webhooks, and all the Roles and Permissions necessary to automate the deployment to the infrastructure set up in hosting.

The project also uses remote state in S3 with locking using DynamoDB. This feature allows for even greater level of modularity, and at the minimum for collaboration between two or more teammates.

Terraform allows for setting up workspaces, which can be used for separating staging and production environments and having fine-grained control regarding parity and variance between environments.

There is a companion example Ember app, which contains a setup for environment variables and buildspec.yml file. I also encourage you to review the commit history, as I tried to illustrate everything in clear logical steps.

Purpose

The purpose of this, an the Ember App repos are to illustrate the capabilities of Terraform, and to serve as a learning example, for that reason the entire code base is MIT licensed. I encourage participation and collaboration, and welcome any contributions to make this a more reusable piece of code.

Contributing

Please feel free to open up issues and create pull requests. All feedback and contributions welcome.

References

• Example Ember App
  • https://github.com/psteininger/ember-deploy-app
• Blog Post with Step-by-Step
  • https://medium.com/@piotr.steininger/

Resources

• Terraform Docs
  • https://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html
• AWS Docs
  • https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/
• AWS Help in Berlin
  • Renato Losio - http://arsenio.it