garden-backend

The backend API service for thegardens.ai.

Repo layout

The API is currently hosted on an AWS lightsail container service. infra contains the terraform modules to provision both dev and prod instances of the necessary AWS resources. See also infra/README.md.

garden-backend-service is the python source code for the fastAPI app deployed with lightsail. See also garden-backend-service/README.md.

.github/workflows contains our CI/CD config used to actually test and deploy the app.

Note that there are no GH actions to actually apply changes to the terraform code in infra. Real changes to infra need to be made explicitly by someone with the necessary permissions to terraform apply them. You might need to terraform apply to dev before a PR has been approved, but don't apply changes to prod until they're approved.

Branches and deployment

• dev is the default branch (make PRs against dev)
• merges to dev trigger (re-)deployment to our garden-service-dev lightsail container service.
• likewise, merges to prod deploy to garden-service-prod on lightsail.

The dev branch is the source of truth for development in this repo. prod only exists for deployment purposes. Any changes to prod that aren't on dev will be lost in time, like tears in rain 🤖🌧️.