Cinema-AWS-Terraform

This project was built using React for application development, Redux for state management, Git for version control, CircleCI as a pipeline for CI/CD, AWS-s3 for storing our static application, AWS Cloudfront for content delivery, Slack for progress reporting on deployment,Sentry for monitoring and Terraform to provision resources.

CircleCI

• For Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Github.
• Create Public and Private keys for the project.
• Paste the public key in the Project Repo -> Settings -> add deploy key.
• Paste the Private key in the CircleCI settings for the project.
• Config different environmental variables for AWS s3 and CloudFront.

AWS s3

• Create an IAM user then add permissions using environmental variables on CircleCI.
• Environmental variables -> Access key + Secret access key.
• Create buckets for development, staging and production, add bucket policy and static hosting.
• Add all the environmental variables to CircleCI.

AWS Cloudfront

• Create distributions for all stages for the edge locations -> AWS.
• Create environmental variables for development, staging and production -> CircleCI.
• Invalidations can be added using code.

Slack

• Create a new workspace on Slack for the project and add a channel.
• Navigate to settings of the workspace -> setting & administration -> manage app.
• Search from the app directory circleci and add it -> add channel -> then copy the hook URL.
• Navigate to circleci -> project's settings -> webhooks and add a webhook URL from slack.
• Add a secret key -> select job completed and then test with a ping.

Slack Integration

• Navigate to the project settings -> Slack integration and create a slack application.
• Go to permissions -> scope and add chat:write | files:write and then install to workspace under OAuth token section.
• Add the token to circleci's environment variables -> SLACK_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Terraform

• Update your aws credentials: new IAM user for terraform to connect to AWS.
• Add the created user's credentials to your local system's terminal -> export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY .

Docker

Sentry