Cloud-Native Aurora Serverless via CDK & Typescript

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The goal of this pull request is to lay the foundation for all other work to happen. In order to do anything with this project, we need a real Aurora Serverless cluster and a verified way of connecting to it locally or with an least privileged account.

Learning

I started doing this in my standard CloudFormation skills and kind of got tired of it. So, I decided it was time to take the jump and learn a handful of other tools. They are:

• TypeScript - https://www.typescriptlang.org
• AWS CDK
  • Project - https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
  • Developer Guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/home.html
  • API Ref - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-construct-library.html
• VS Code

All three took me a bit of time but after a fun weekend I feel comfortable enough in all 3 now. I've not yet replaced VS Code as my default editor, but I did take the time to configure it the way I like and would (at the least) do all my CDK w/TypeScript using this IDE. The IntelliSense support is simply mind blowing. Took me forever to learn the Control+Spacebar trick.

Details

• Ensured README directions are good for getting setup. Easy contributors and setup.
• Good security, by only setting up the cluster locally with basic users via GitHub Secrets.
• Updated gemspec with both ActiveRecord & AWS RDS Data API SDK.
• Setup Dotenv and allow a local git ignored .env file to drive things for contributors.
• Use Docker for node local dev for Aurora setup.
• Aurora construct heavily inspired by https://almirzulic.com/posts/create-serverless-aurora-cluster-with-cdk/

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