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Getting Started

This project serves as a fully working and tested solution for deploying staging environment for R-Shiny application into AWS.

Technologies used

Terraform1 is used to provision infrastructure resources like VPC, compute instances, DNS records, RDS instance and many more.

AWS2 public cloud is used as a Cloud provider of choice.

R-Shiny3 is used as a framework for example application.

All Docker images are stored in public DockerHub4 registry.

Entire source code is stored in GitHub's appsilon-interview organisation.

GitHub Actions5 are used for continuous integration, running tests, building application's Docker image, linting and static validation of IaaC code for potential security issues.

  1. Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service. ↩

  2. The Amazon AWS offers you a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. ↩

  3. Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. ↩

  4. Storing and distribution system for named Docker images. ↩

  5. GitHub Actions enables you to create custom software development life cycle (SDLC) workflows directly in your GitHub repository. ↩