Move production API && DB to AWS

mozilla / ssh_scan_api

An API for ssh_scan (https://github.com/mozilla/ssh_scan) and the backend API service for the Mozilla SSH Observatory (https://observatory.mozilla.org/)

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Move production API && DB to AWS #90

Closed claudijd closed 6 years ago

claudijd commented 7 years ago

Locallized mongo instances are greate for local testing and such, but for the production deployment, it would be really handy to have the DB live in a very stable place where it can get backups and such in the case of API server corruption resulting in data loss.

claudijd commented 7 years ago

Adding API as well, no reason why we can't host that in AWS and eliminate the backend traffic traversing the tubes.

claudijd commented 7 years ago

/cc @andrewkrug

claudijd commented 7 years ago

Random notes from discusssion with @andrewkrug about how we could do this up in AWS...

Use dynamos for DB backend (dynamo-lite for local/dev) - very similar to mongodb, so hopefully easy to switch
Create VPC, 3 node autoscale
Auto-deployment from code repo
Still need digital ocean for workers (unless we want to do some traffic tunneling or get an exception)

Immediate action item is to draw up a diagram of how it would all work.