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Project contains sample spring boot hello world microservice with unit test & integration test.Project can be buit by gradle, and can be deployed to AWS by terraform

Project has following CI stages:

• build
  • It executes gradle build to compile, run tests and build package
• dockerize
  • It gets the artifact(jar) from previous build step and put into docker image, then push to AWS ECR
• deploy
  • It executes terraform apply to deploy image to AWS ECS and trigger codedeploy
• destroy
  • It executes terraform destroy to delete every resource. This step is manual, needs click to play button

Prerequisites

• Put the following tag into your VPC
  • Key = BlueGreenDemo
• Put the following tags into your each Private Subnets(ECS Fargate tasks will use these subnets)
  • Type = Private
• Put the following tags into your each Public Subnets(ALBs will use these subnets)
  • Type = Public
• Buy domain from AWS Route53 and create Route 53 hosted zone with domain name(i.e. mycompany.com) or just only add nameservers of created hosted zone into your different hosting firm
• Create IAM User with access key & secret keys. These will be used in Gitlab CI env vars as described below.

How to use it?

After cloning this project, you have to do the following steps:

• Push to your Gitlab repository.
• Set the environment variables under project settings
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (access key of iam user)
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (secret key of iam user)
  • AWS_DEFAULT_REGION (i.e.us-east-1)
  • DOMAIN_NAME (i.e.mycompany.com)
• Commit to your project, and pipeline will automatically start.You can reach to your app with mybgapp.<yourdomain_name.com>(i.e. mybgapp.mycompany.com or mybgapp.mycompany.com:8080)
• Check out your AWS codedeploy pipeline, then execute following steps according to your needs:
  • Switch traffic(80 port can access to new version of your app)
  • Terminate original task (deletes v1 of your app, after switch traffic)
  • Rollback(destroys your buggy v2 app)