Social Cocktail

Social media app based around cocktails. Find and share your favorite cocktails with your friends!

Scales using AWS Auto Scaling Groups with an application load balancer. The application infrastructure is defined with Terraform and AMIs are built using Packer.

Architecture

Building

Frontend

1. Enter the client/ directory
2. (Optional) export REACT_APP_BACKEND_HOST to use a non-dev backend. Will default to localhost:8080.
3. Run npm run build

Built files will be in client/build/

Backend

1. Install maven. Check that you have it with mvn --version
2. Enter the server/ directory
3. Run mvn package

Executable jar will be in server/target/****.jar

Deploying

Pre-deploy

Make sure that you have AWS configured locally. You should have the aws cli executable and your credentials set up.

Creating AMI for backend

1. Go to infra/packer
2. Run packer build -on-error=ask packer-image.json
3. Take note of the ami id reported by packer

Creating infrastructure

1. Go to infra/terraform
2. Create SSH keys so that you can connect to your SSH instances (for troubleshooting)

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -m PEM

3. Rename the file vars.tfvars.example -> vars.tfvars and set the variables
4. Run terraform plan -var-file=vars.tfvars -out <plan_name> and then terraform apply <plan_name>

Frontend

1. Make sure that you have built the frontend with the backend host environment variable
2. Find the name of the S3 bucket generated from the previous step
3. Copy over the build files with

   aws s3 cp client/build s3://<bucket_name> --recursive