Multi-tier Architecture on AWS

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Build a multi-tier architecture project with various AWS services for real time environments.
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  • R53 - To create record sets within hosted zones.
  • VPC - To create subnets, internet gateway, route tables, security groups.
  • SNS - For notification services.
  • ELB - For load balancing.
  • ACM - For SSL certificates.
  • EC2 - Instances with elastic IP and Auto Scaling group attached.
  • RDS - Master database with multi - AZ configuration.

Steps :

1. Public and private subnets, IGW, NAT Gateway,etc.

VPC
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Public Subnet - 1
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Public Subnet - 2
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Private Subnet - 1
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Private Subnet - 2
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Created
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IGW
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Attached to VPC
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Private Route table for VPC
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NAT Gateway with attached Elastic IP
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Associate private subnets with NAT Gateway
Associate NAT gateway to Private RT
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Attach private subnets to Private RT
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Attach IGW to Public RT
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VPC setup completed!

2. Create EC2 instance with Userdata (Bootstrapping) script.

EC2 setup complete!

3. Create RDS Security Group and RDS subnet group with Private Subnets.

Create security group
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Provided access to only webserver SG
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Create Database
Type - MySQL
VPC - Komla-VPC
SG - Security group for incoming traffic from EC2 on port 3306.
Instance - db.t2.micro
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Database created!
Create ELB
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VPC - Komla-VPC
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Spread across Public subnets
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Create SG for load balancer
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Health check parameters
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Add EC2 instance
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ELB created!
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Apache server operating. EC2 instance healthy!

4. Launch RDS instance with Multi-AZ.

5. Install WordPress.

Latest version of WordPress requires atleast php 5.6. Amazon t2 micro comes with php 5.4 standard. To bypass this issue I installed php 7. Refer.

sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y php7.2
           sudo service httpd restart

Installing Wordpress: Official tutorial
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
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Extracted the downloaded package from wordpress with
tar -xzf latest.tar.gz
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Moved the contents of wordpress directory to /var/www/html
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cd /etc/httpd/conf
edit httpd.conf
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Search for "AllowOverride None" change None to All.
It is in /var/www/html directory.
Change permissions on html directory.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html.
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Wordpress opens on the Public IP of EC2 instance!
http://18.***.161.241/wp-admin/setup-config.php
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Check whether RDS is accessible via EC2 instance.
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After configuring the dbname,username, password, hostname the wordpress application is up and running on Public IP of EC2 instance on the browser!
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6. Create Route53 hosted zone to map with domain.

The ELB DNS is configured as an A record for the domain name wordpress.komlalebu.com.
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7. Create AMI for EC2.

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8. Create ELB.

The EC2 instances are now accessed with the ELB DNS.
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9. Create launch configuration from AMI.

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Running two desired instances
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10. Create ASG for launch configuration.

VPC - Komla-VPC
Subnets - Public subnets
ELB - Komla-ELB
Desired - 2 instances
Minimum - 1 instances
Maximun - 2 instances
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Scaling policy
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11. Health Check and fault tolerance.

Terminated all instances created by Auto Scaling for testing.
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Health check failed and a new instance was created from AMI with ASG.
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Notification received in mail whenever instances are terminated or launched.
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Website up and running within minutes of server failure!

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