Building an E-Commerce System on AWS with Terraform and Ansible: A 2-Hour MVP Deployment

Introduction:

In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, speed, efficiency, and automation are paramount. In a real-world scenario, I took on the role of a Cloud Engineer with a DevOps mindset to create and implement a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for an e-commerce system on AWS. What makes this project remarkable is that we accomplished this deployment in less than two hours, thanks to the power of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.

E-commerce MVP Deployment Steps:

Step 1: Creating a Magento Access Key

Step 2: AWS Cloud Shell Setup

Step 3: Installed Terraform on cloud shell.

Step 4: Uploaded the zip Terraform folder containing the configurations.

Step 5: Deployed the EC2 VM with Terraform

Step 6: Installed Ansible within the VM.

Step 7: Downloaded the necessary Ansible playbooks and edited the parameters in the Ansible configuration files.

Step 8: Deployed a stack of tools for the e-commerce platform, including Magento, PHP, MySQL, and Redis.

Step 9: Verified the deployment by accessing the E-commerce website via the EC2 Public IP.

Step 10: Populating the E-commerce website.

Conclusion:

This project demonstrates the power of DevOps practices and IaC using Terraform and Ansible in automating the deployment of an e-commerce MVP on AWS. In under two hours, I accomplished what traditionally might have taken significantly more time and manual effort. The use of cloud-based tools and the automation capabilities of Terraform and Ansible offer a glimpse into the future of agile, efficient, and scalable e-commerce solutions. As the e-commerce landscape continues to evolve, embracing automation is crucial to staying ahead in the game.