Deploy a High-Availability Web Application Using AWS CloudFormation

Project Overview:

Deploy an application (Apache Web Server) and also pick up code (JavaScript and HTML) from S3 Storage and deploy it on the web server using AWS CloudFormation.

Infrastructure Architecture:

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About Files:

• create-stack.sh : Script to create CloudFormation stack.
• update-stack.sh : Script to update CloudFormation stack.
• network.yml : Used to create Network Infrastructure for the Web Server.
• network-parameters.json : Parameters for Network Infrasturcture.
• servers.yml : Used to create servers and load Balancer.
• servers-parameters.json : Parameters for creating servers.
• delete-stack.sh : Script to delete CloudFormation stack.

To deploy:

1. Upload the Website file in S3 bucket and update the Bucket name in servers.yml file.
2. Run: ./create-stack.sh network.yml network-parameters.json - It will create necessary VPC, Internet Gateway, Subnet, Route Table and Nat Gateway.
3. Run: ./create-stack.sh servers.yml servers-parameters.json - It will create Servers, Auto Scaling and Load Balancer.