AWS Fargate Workflow

README.md

Fargate deployment

• Awesome ECS lost: https://github.com/nathanpeck/awesome-ecs#aws-fargate
• How to access KMS/SSM parameters from a Docker instance: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/managing-secrets-for-amazon-ecs-applications-using-parameter-store-and-iam-roles-for-tasks/
  • Encryptions keys: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-1#/encryptionKeys/us-east-1
  • Parameters: https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/parameters?region=us-east-1
• Preventing HTTP 503 with transparent SSL: https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Over_SSL#Using_a_Reverse_Proxy
• Fargate CLI: http://somanymachines.com/fargate/
• Mutliple fargate instaces with single ELB: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-listeners.html#listener-rules

Caching solutions

• Redis Object Cache with ElastiCache: http://michaelcompton.co.uk/posts/redis-elasticache-wordpress/
• Redis cache benchmarking: https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/WordPress-Caching-Solutions-Part-1-%E2%80%93-Performance-Benchmarking-and-Installing-Redis-Object-Caching_p327910
• WordPress performance essentials: https://thinktandem.io/blog/2017/11/06/wordpress-performance-essentials/
• Using CloudFront for WordPress: http://www.1strategy.com/blog/2016/12/29/using-cloudfront-for-your-entire-wordpress-site/
• Same as above, with some feedback at the bottom: http://www.danneh.org/2015/04/setting-wordpress-amazon-cloudfront/
• Official WordPress with CloudFront: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/how-to-accelerate-your-wordpress-site-with-amazon-cloudfront/

AKS & SSM

• Managing secrets with EC2 + AKS + SSM with IAM roles: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/managing-secrets-for-amazon-ecs-applications-using-parameter-store-and-iam-roles-for-tasks/

Administration and documentation

• EFS backups: https://github.com/aws-samples/data-pipeline-samples/tree/master/samples/EFSBackup
• Projections and diagrams: https://cloudcraft.co/

Generic WordPress

• Performance & security: https://www.slideshare.net/osterman/rock-solid-wordpress
• HumanMade scalability guide: https://engineering.hmn.md/platform/plugins/
• HyperDB & LudicrousDBV: https://pantheon.io/docs/hyperdb/ & https://github.com/stuttter/ludicrousdb
• Amazon SES drop-in: https://github.com/humanmade/aws-ses-wp-mail
• Batcache full-page caching: https://github.com/humanmade/batcache
• Cavalcade wp-cron with concurrency: https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade

Development environment

• docker-compose MySQL replication: https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-mysql/blob/master/docker-compose-replication.yml

Backups

• Importing and exporting AWS Aurora to S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/AuroraMySQL.Integrating.SaveIntoS3.html & https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/AuroraMySQL.Integrating.LoadFromS3.html
• Importing and exporting AWS RDS MySQL from S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/MySQL.Procedural.Importing.html & https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/latest/DeveloperGuide/dp-copydata-mysql.html