README.md

aws_wordpress

PoC of a high availability wordpress deployment on AWS

Architectural Overview

This repository uses ECS with Fargate to deploy an highly available and scalable Wordpress installation on AWS Fargate on Amazon ECS. It will provision a VPC, ECS Cluster, EFS Filesystem, Secrets, Aurora, and Wordpress Containers.

To deploy Wordpress we use the official Wordpress container image available on Docker hub.

In order to share between containers the wp-content folder of Wordpress (plugins, themes...) an EFS volume is attached to all the running containers.

AWS Secrets Manager to store database credentials for the Serverless Aurora Cluster and to generate the Wordpress Salts.

Test it!

install and bootstrap aws cdk

clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/contini-aron/aws_wordpress.git

change directory into the folder

cd aws_wordpress

make a virtualenv:

virtualenv env

activate env and install requirements

source ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

run a cdk synthesize

cdk synth

run a cdk deploy

cdk deploy

Test cleanup

make sure to cleanup the resources by running the command

cdk destroy

to avoid paying unnecessary $

Development setup

make a dev virtualenv:

virtualenv env_dev

activate env and install requirements

source ./env_dev/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

install pre-commit hooks:

pre-commit install
pre-commit install --hook-type commit-msg