Wordpress on EKS

Demo to get wordpress running on EKS in AWS using Terraform, Containers & more.

Getting started / development environment

To get started, you will need to install the necessary tooling to deploy to AWS and create an AWS account.

Installing development tools

macOS

Make sure you have Homebrew installed.

To simplify setting up your development environment, please run the following in a bourne-type shell:

./bin/setup_development_environment.sh

GNU/Linux (Debian-based or RHEL-based or distribution with Homebrew)

Make sure you have apt-get (Debian-based), dnf/yum (RHEL-based) or Homebrew.

To simplify setting up your development environment, please run the following in a bourne-type shell:

./bin/setup_development_environment.sh

Windows

This project is tailored towards UNIX or GNU/Linux based Operating System (OS). If you're on Windows, please use WSL (2) to work in a GNU/Linux distribution.

Developing in a container (podman/docker)

If you have Podman or Docker installed, you can work in a "predefined" development environment by building and launching a container image.

To build the container (ubuntu based by default) and launch it, use the following.

./bin/build_and_run_dev_container.sh

Linting

We use the pre-commit framework to audit/lint this codebase. To run it manually, make sure to stage your changes (git add) and run pre-commit run -a (you may need to add a python -m in the front of that command if installed on Linux)

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Understanding IaC/Terraform

Structure

All of our infrastructure as code (IaC)/terraform configurations are listed under infra. Under that folder you'll see the following:

• infra/live/<aws account name>/<component name>
  • These folders contain the "root" terraform modules where you actually run plan/apply.
• infra/modules/<module name>
  • These folders contain custom reusable terraform modules.

How to run

State resources

To get started, you'll need to deploy state (also known as "backend") resources, in order to multiple people to work on Terraform together!

cd infra/live/example-account/state
tfenv install
terraform init
terraform apply

If you renamed the example-account directory to your actual account name, keep that in mind later as your state bucket and DynamoDB table name are based off of it!

Environment Resources

Next you'll need to deploy platform environment resources! These constitute shared networking and cluster resources for an "environment". Let's start with dev.

cd infra/live/example-account/environments/dev/platform
tfenv install
terraform init
terraform apply

Services

Next you'll deploy the services! (More docs to come!)