1192920 - Deploy Idea-Town

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services :: Operations: Deployment Requests - DEPRECATED, task)

Description

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

Tracking bug for deploying idea-town(https://github.com/mozilla/idea-town)  (elastic beanstalk, dynamodb) to AWS. 

This is a new project and the first to use EB. This bug documents and serves as an way to communicate ops work deploying this app into production. 

= About Idea Town =

- node.js app
- puts data into dynamodb 
- collects email addresses from people interested in participating

= notes =

- node.js app forked from an old EB example
- needs to be tested to work IAM roles (ARN ok to publish?)
  - modern node aws-sdk lib should have no probs w/ this
  - code might need to changed
- IAM role should grant permissions to PUT to dynamodb table and SNS endpoint
- have no way to test if it is working, maybe have to write small script in
  repo to "ScannedCount" dynamodb table 
- no code to export data right now
- concerns about PII, only 1 field, email address (AFAICT) 

= Task list (for now) = 

- set up dynamodb table
- set up SNS endpoint 
- set up IAM role with permissions to publish into them
- set up cloudformation to build all resources together
- write a test script to query/export data from dynamodb table 
- get TLS certificate for ideatown.mozilla.com

Comment 1

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

Update: 

- deployed IAM role / application to production 
- allocating TLS certificate and domain for ideatown.firefox.com
- once TLS/domain is allocated will point CNAME at it

Comment 2

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

- confirmed with `scripts/dump-dynamo-tables.js` that data is being written correctly in prod

:jason 

- could you get a TLS cert for ideatown.firefox.com (for an ELB)
- could you update inventory so ideatown.firefox.com CNAME ideatown.r53-2.services.mozilla.com (already an alias for ELB)

Comment 3

[Jason Thomas [:jason]]

(In reply to Benson Wong [:mostlygeek] from comment #2)
> :jason 
> 
> - could you get a TLS cert for ideatown.firefox.com (for an ELB)
> - could you update inventory so ideatown.firefox.com CNAME
> ideatown.r53-2.services.mozilla.com (already an alias for ELB)

Done. ideatown.firefox.com may take a few minutes to become active.

Comment 4

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

It's up: https://ideatown.firefox.com/ and confirmed working.

More notes: 

- using `eb config` is sort of dangerous if you really don't know what you're doing.
- managing using the web console is much easier and less risky for causing weird config states

Comment 5

[Benson Wong [:mostlygeek]]

And I took the site down because of changes to use "basket" instead of dynamodb for emails.