AWS Two-Tier Cloud Infrastructure
AWS Two-Tier Cloud Infrastructure: Automated CI/CD Deployment.
From the brief to the build.
The Challenge
The project was built to demonstrate enterprise-level DevOps and infrastructure automation practices: a production-grade, highly available two-tier architecture on AWS, with the complete cloud environment provisioned through code and deployments fully automated.
The Solution
A two-tier architecture deployed on AWS. The environment is defined entirely as Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, application images are baked with Packer, and GitHub Actions orchestrates the CI/CD pipeline from AMI build to instance refresh.
- Type
- In-house product
- Category
- Cloud & Data Engineering
- Services provided
- Cloud infrastructure
- DevOps and CI/CD
- Related service
- Tech stack
- AWS VPCEC2Application Load BalancerRDS PostgreSQLKMSSecrets ManagerCloudWatchTerraformPackerGitHub ActionsNext.jsTypeScript
The pieces that made it work.
Infrastructure as Code
The complete cloud environment is provisioned entirely through Terraform: a VPC with public and private subnets, an Auto Scaling EC2 fleet behind an Application Load Balancer, and a Multi-AZ RDS PostgreSQL database.
Immutable images
Application images are baked with Packer for consistent, immutable deployments.
Automated CI/CD pipeline
GitHub Actions orchestrates a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, from AMI build to zero-downtime instance refresh, secured with GitHub OIDC for keyless, short-lived AWS authentication.
Security and observability
The stack includes KMS encryption, AWS Secrets Manager for credential management, and CloudWatch monitoring for full observability.
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