Deploy server to ecs

[cszczepaniak]

STILL TODO IN THIS PR

• Get it running in github actions

What broke / What you're adding

Deploying the application to AWS using aws cdk. This is a nifty tool that I found out about through work; it's an infrastructure-as-code platform that allows us to easily provision AWS resources. Out of the box, it comes with a lot of neat libraries that abstract away significant amounts of infrastructure boilerplate (you can see here that I'm getting something running out in ECS fronted by a load balancer in ~10 lines of TypeScript).

How you did it

Mostly followed the CDK documentation. awscdk.io is a decent resource; here's the main link I was working with. This video was not super helpful but helped me realize I need to specify which port the docker image is serving on.

Here's a promising article about setting up the DB within the VPC, although their use case was a bit different since they were using lambdas and stuff.

How to test it and how to try to break it

Well, we really want the github actions to be deploying it. But if you wanna try it on your own...

• Install aws-cdk with npm i -g aws-cdk
• You need to configure your AWS CLI with some creds using aws configure (although I had a bit of trouble with these not getting picked up; I ended up just using a script which exported the appropriate env vars). You need to set the following (which need to have sufficient permissions to do all the deploy stuff; I generated an IAM user called "deploy" that has admin rights):
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• Navigate to infrastructure and run npm install
• Run cdk synth to show you what will be deployed (in a super terrible format; this is the cloud formation definition)
• Run cdk deploy to deploy the stuff
• Run cdk destroy to tear everything down afterwards if you want; I was doing this because I didn't want to accidentally incur costs. Once we have the infrastructure better understood, we can look closer at billing implications/pick free tier machines and stuff

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Codecov Report

Merging #94 (c71e526) into master (978c0c6) will decrease coverage by 0.12%. The diff coverage is 22.22%.

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server/setup.go	0.00% <0.00%> (ø)
server/persistence/mysql/mysql.go	77.08% <100.00%> (+1.00%)	:arrow_up:
server/play/cut.go	44.12% <0.00%> (-5.88%)	:arrow_down:

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[cszczepaniak]

go.mod should handle things relative to the folder it's in, no?

[cszczepaniak]

would be easy to revert the folder structure too if it's an issue