Lewis Lampkin, III

Background HumanGov is a Model Automated Multi-Tenant Architecture (MAMA) that is meant to be used by the 50 states for personnel tracking. Currently the architecture requires Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that are maintained by the HumanGov systems administrators. The systems administrators handle all the patching, operations, etc. Due to states wanting their data separate from each other, each state gets a separate set of EC2 instances, which means that as the application scales from one state up to 50 states, the systems administrators will have to patch 50x as many EC2 instances. The system administrators report that they have begun to schedule more and more overtime to handle the maintenance windows for updating the EC2 instances. The lead developer remarked that it was taking longer and longer for new application deployments to get rolled out as the infrastructure grew and more states came on board. By the way, the development environment does not have standa...

This article is part of a three-part series: Containing the Chaos Part 1 of 3: Docker | Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) In part 1, the application will be placed into a container image. The container image will then be stored in the Amazon Elastic Container Registtry (ECR). Containing the Chaos Part 2 of 3: Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) | AWS Fargate | Terraform In part 2, the DynamoDB table and Amazon S3 buckets will created using Terraform. Further the Amazon Elastic Container Services (EC2) cluster will be initiated on AWS Fargate. Containing the Chaos Part 3 of 3: Amazon Elastic Container Service (EC2) | Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Terraform In part 3 (the final part), the task definition will be created for the cluster. A service will be created to handle running the defined tasks. The application will then be tested. Finally, will decommission the resources. For background on ...

This article is part of a three-part series: Containing the Chaos Part 1 of 3: Docker | Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) In part 1, the application will be placed into a container image. The container image will then be stored in the Amazon Elastic Container Registtry (ECR). Containing the Chaos Part 2 of 3: Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) | AWS Fargate | Terraform In part 2, the DynamoDB table and Amazon S3 buckets will created using Terraform. Further the Amazon Elastic Container Services (EC2) cluster will be initiated on AWS Fargate. Containing the Chaos Part 3 of 3: Amazon Elastic Container Service (EC2) | Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Terraform In part 3 (the final part), the task definition will be created for the cluster. A service will be created to handle running the defined tasks. The application will then be tested. Finally, will decommission the resources. For background on t...