In this advanced demo lesson you are going to evolve the architecture of a popular web application wordpress The architecture will start with a manually built single instance, running the application and database over the stages of the demo you will evolve this until its a scalable and resilient architecture
The demo consists of 7 stages, each implementing additional components of the architecture
- Stage 1 - Setup the environment and manually build wordpress
- Stage 2 - Automate the build using a Launch Template
- Stage 3 - Split out the DB into RDS and Update the LT
- Stage 4 - Split out the WP filesystem into EFS and Update the LT
- Stage 5 - Enable elasticity via a ASG & ALB and fix wordpress (hardcoded WPHOME)
- Stage 6a - Optional .. move to Aurora and DB HA
- Stage 7 - Cleanup
Make sure you are logged into AWS and in us-east-1
