tasks.md

Task 1

Infrastructure for the web web application(simple nodejs app with access to DB)

Please prepare a Terraform code that will deploy infrastructure for some not existing web application.

Let's consider the list of the requirements like below:

• as the example of the application please use this project
• the application needs to have access to the DB system,
• application nodes should be located on EC2 instances,
• application nodes should not have public IP addresses,
• application nodes should be located in the private networks only,
• please consider using reverse proxy for the applicaton but is not essential,
• applications nodes should scale up automatically based on the CPU usage (please consider ASG rule),
• only application nodes should have access to the Database,
• communication with the Database should only be over private IP addresses,
• using RDS service is allowed (it should not be exposed - no public endpoint),
• to expose application instances, please consider application load balancer,
• how you will provision the instances is entirely up to you (Ansible, Puppet, etc),
• OS used on instances does not matter,
• Terraform code should contain VPC definition,
• using external Terraform modules is not allowed,
• please use the latest version of the Terraform,
• please include instruction on how the Terraform code should be executed

Task 2

Please prepare deployment of the application from the previous task on the local Kubernetes cluster.

Please consider the list of the requirements like below:

• for the application pod nginx:latest container image will be perfectly fine,
• deployment should be automated using Terraform,
• please describe in a few words how you set up the local K8S cluster, what tools do you use for that?
• deployment can have a form of the Helm package (it's not required),
• please define network policies for the pods if possible,
• application should be exposed (accessible from the host machine),
• any type of ingress controller is allowed,
• please attach instruction on how to run/deploy the application,
• in a few words, please describe how you would build a perfect CI/CD pipeline for the mentioned application.

Required output

Please add your code to a new git repo on github.com, and please share it with us (@robertwe). If some extensive description is required, please put it into a dedicated Markdown file.