Demo Project for AWS Developer: Getting Started

This original repository contains the demo project for the AWS Developer: Getting Started course on Pluralsight.com.

The original repository: https://github.com/ryanmurakami/pizza-luvrs

Modifications

The original repo was copied and modified to dynamically handle all the AWS services (S3, dynamodb, RDS), i.e. the service configurations are managed via environment variables. A new CloudFormation (CF) template was created including VPC Endpoints for S3, DynamoDB - also fully dynamic. The only requirement to launch the CF stack is to have an EC2 key pair and an AMI image.

How to run the CF stack:

• launch an EC2 instance
• create an EC2 key pair (which should be also used for the CF stack)
• create an AMI from this EC2
  • log in to the EC2 instance
  • install necessary packages

sudo yum install git
sudo yum install postgresql postgresql-contrib
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum install nodejs npm

• clone the repo into /home/ec2-user/pizza

cd /home/ec2-user
git clone https://github.com/tibor-reiss/pizzaaaaaa.git ./pizza

• install the app

cd /home/ec2-user/pizza
npm install

• launch the CloudFormation stack with the template cloudformation/pizza.template

How to test on the public EC2 (assuming the necessary AWS infrastructure - RDS, S3, DynamoDB - is already in place based on the course):

• above steps under "create an AMI from this EC2" have been completed
• export all the necessary environment variables

export PIZZA_PASS=<your_RDS_password>
export PIZZA_HOST=<your_RDS_host_name>
export PIZZA_USER=<your_RDS_user_name>
export PIZZA_DB=<your_RDS_db_name>
export DYNDB_USERS=<your_dynamodb_users_table_name>
export DYNDB_TOPPINGS=<your_dynamodb_toppings_table_name>
export S3_BUCKET=<your_s3_bucket_name>
export S3_REGION=<your_s3_region>

• create the RDS table and fill it with some defaults

cd /home/ec2-user/pizza
./cloudformation/create_pizza_table_bash

• create the statically linked file versions using the environment variables

cd /home/ec2-user/pizza/cloudformation
./replace_hbs

• start the app

cd /home/ec2-user/pizza
npm start

Project Explanation

Pizza Luvrs is a social network for people who love pizza. Users can create accounts, create pizzas, and share them with others.

Known Issues

None at this time.

Found one? Please let me know by opening an issue!

License

All Images copyright Ryan Lewis

All Code under MIT license