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Master collection point for issues, procedures, and code to manage the HackOregon Civic platform
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Use civicplatform.org as the canonical domain for the 2018 frontend container #172

Closed DingoEatingFuzz closed 6 years ago

DingoEatingFuzz commented 6 years ago

Since this year we are telling the national Civic story, the name civicpdx is no longer accurate. We now own the domain civicplatform.org that we would like to use instead.

In the short term, what this means is making what is currently at staging-2018.civicpdx.org available at civicplatform.org and ideally making staging-2018.civicpdx.org redirect to the new URL.

Although we don't want to go live too early, we want to be confident that as soon as we are ready to go live, it's as simple as flipping a switch.

iant01 commented 6 years ago

The easiest and safest right now for this change may be to create a dns entry that points to the load balancer (like staging-2018.civicpdx does and create and spinup yet another service (2018.civicplatform ?) That uses the same container image as the staging-2018 service so that there is a non conflicting listener group for it and proper target group. That way both will coexist and function. The key part would be making a change to the travis build for staging-2018 to do an extra deploy for the new 2018.civicplatform service using the same container image. This way when staging is updated the both get deployed and upgraded to remain in sync. Then at some point change back to a single service deploy and get rid of the staging-2018 naming and remove the old images, service/task definitions, etc. .

MikeTheCanuck commented 6 years ago

@DingoEatingFuzz Who has control of the civicplatform.org domain?

Who can either get the NS records pointed at AWS, or can create A (or CNAME?) record to direct requests for http://civicplatform.org over to our ALB?

If we're going to use this in seven days' time, we need to get one of these two changes made ASAP to be able to get the AWS side of things testing.

DingoEatingFuzz commented 6 years ago

The domain ceremony is now done. I have access to the domain.

The A record is an alias to the ALB, and I created a new listener rule by hand to route civicplatform.org to the Civic2018 service/container.

I back-filled those changed I made by hand to the CF templates, but I haven't yet applied those changes to the stack. I didn't want to do that without some eyes on it: https://github.com/hackoregon/hackoregon-aws-infrastructure/pull/39/files

MikeTheCanuck commented 6 years ago

PR 39 has been synced to CloudFormation and things are running as expected.