Deploying a WordPress application to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

This project creates the infrastructure and deployment pipeline to run a WordPress application on AWS.

The infrastrucutre consists of the folllowing:

• Amazon EKS: This is created using the AWS EKS Blueprints for CDK
• Amazon Aurora MySQL Cluster to store WordPress data
• Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) service to store WordPress installation and configuration files

Here's the high level architecture design:

This is a scalable and resilient design by following AWS good practices such as:

• AWS VPC with multiple Availability Zones (AZs)
• EKS Cluster with a minimum of two nodes placed across different AZs
• Amazon MySQL Aurora cluster with two nodes (writer/reader) deployed across multiple AZs
• Amazon EFS file system. A regional storage classes that store file system data and metadata redundantly across multiple geographically separated Availability Zones within an AWS Region
• FluxCD to continuously monitor GitHub an and synchronizing the Kubernetes cluster using GitHub as it source of truth.

To deploy the application:

1. Clone this repository
2. Make the deploy script executable: chmod 750 deploy.sh
3. Execute the script ./deploy.sh
4. Once the deployment completes, create a directory in the root of the project called secrets and create two files inside:

• kustomization.yaml
• namespace.yaml

Add the following to the namespace.yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: wordpress
  labels:
    name: wordpress

Add the following to the kustomization.yaml:

secretGenerator:
- name: mysql-pass
  namespace: wordpress
  options:
    disableNameSuffixHash: true
  literals:
  - dbpassword=
  - dbhost=
  - dbuser=
  - dbase=

resources:
  - namespace.yaml

5. Make sure to add the credetials for the created database found in AWS Secrets
6. Set your kubernetes context by updating kubeconfig]. The exact command can be found on the CloudFormation Output tab.
7. Apply the secrets to the EKS Cluster by running kubectl apply -k /secrets/
8. Next step is to install, configure and bootstrap FluxCD following the instructions here. This is an example of how to bootstrap flux:

flux bootstrap github \
  --owner=$GITHUB_USER \
  --repository=$REPO_NAME \
  --branch=main \
  --path=/k8s/prod \
  --personal=true

Enjoy your resilient, scalable WordPress installation that is continuously deployed to your Kubernetes cluster.