Standup Avalon from Avalon Cloudformation Script

[davidschober]

Description

in order to ensure our team is learning cloud formation @d-venckus and @Toputnal should stand up the Avalon (and the whole eco-system) inside of a AWS.

Notes

Cloud formation script https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon-aws

[Toputnal]

I am working through standing up everything using the aforementioned cloudformation templates/configs in the NUL-IT-Sandbox-Admins account.

[Toputnal]

I have reached out to Phuong to see if he can give me any pointers as to where to start. A directory full of template files just leaves me guessing how things ought to work. (Not that I let that stop me from trying stuff. :-) )

[Toputnal]

I have setup a new DNS delegation for devops-test.library.orthwestern.edu which I am using to spin up things in the AWS Sandbox via the CloudFormation script. Currently, I am debugging errors as I encounter them.

[davidschober]

Great Jim! Dig around in there. Make sure you spin down instances. And one thing we realized is creating and destroying a bunch in a row causes extra charges ...

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[Toputnal]

Really? Thanks! I would not have guess that that would be the case. So far I haven't gotten anything to spin all the way up, yet, so the point is Moo, like a cow's opinion; it doesn't matter.

[Toputnal]

We have crashed in newer and more exciting places. @mbklein can you take a peek, please?

[Toputnal]

I have been working on this, playing whack-a-mole, as it were, but I understand much better how all these components work together. I have continued to document any notes, gotchas, etc. here https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon-aws so far I have not hat the infrastructure.yaml stack come all the way up without errors (things like changed filenames or "hard-coded" Amazon Linux images that are no longer available. I've seen it nearly complete a build a couple of times, but won't count this as done until I get both the infrasructure.yaml AND the application.yaml deployed along side.

[Toputnal]

I have been making progress on this. Thank you, @mbklein ! May I introduce to you, the Slee-Stack, the first successful build (in the AWS Sandbox, that is) of the cloudformation scripts. w00+! @davidschober @rtrautve1 @d-venckus

Now, on to building the second tier...

[davidschober]

Awesome! send out a link! @Toputnal

[davidschober]

oops, accidentally closed.

@mbklein should we move the formal docs to a wiki page within the Avalon context when it's done? I know you wanted to merge AWS stuff.

[Toputnal]

The how-to, README.md has been moved to a private repository here: The how-to, README.md has been moved to a private repository here: https://github.com/nulib/infra_scripts/tree/master/aws

[Toputnal]

Current status: The infrastructure stack (slee) is up and running. Getting the Avalon application stack to build on top of the infrastructure stack is the current holdup. I have contacted @mbklein. Will update here when there is something to report. :-)

[Toputnal]

Howto has been moved to the Wiki here: https://github.com/nulib/repodev_planning_and_docs/wiki/AWS-CloudFormation-Templates

[Toputnal]

The Dev instance of Avalon on AWS is up and running under our sandbox account! We'd like to burn it all down and bring it up again, soon, but it's up for the nonce. http://smoke.slee.devops-test.library.northwestern.edu @davidschober @rtrautve1 @d-venckus @ccaizzi