cloud-resume-challenge

My website portfolio that has my resume in it, built using AWS resources. Inspired by "Cloud Resume Challenge" by Forrest Brazeal

Architecture:

All services were configured and provisioned using AWS SAM IaC, from the beginning. I started by building 3 services in the AWS Console before realizing it would be better for to do it all in IaC from the start.

How the project works

Github actions workflow is used to automatically provision all resources (CI/CD) for the website on AWS on a code change to the default branch on this respository.

High level description of functionality

• S3 bucket hosts the website
• certificates and permissions configured in AWS Route53, ACM, Policies
• Cloudfront used high availibility and security in transit (HTTPS)
• DynamoDB and Lambda function used to implement visitor counter.
• JS used to retreive counter value from API and display on site
• APIGateway used to implement an API endpoint

Challenges encountered

1. Sam deploy was not working because I was not choosing the run time that matched my system's runtime (python3.9)
2. My biggest challenge was a silly one to say the least. It took me a long time to figure out why my build and deploy test was failing, I was getting a code uri error from my template.yaml file. I finally found out that I didnt use the correct URI path.

What I could have done better

1. Use SAM CLI + AWS Toolkits to test my function locally before actually deploying it live.

What I learned

1. It is better to keep your aws credentials in "github action secrets" rather than in my code for security reasons.