Current deployment: ShareWise.com

ShareWise is a web-based platform that connects schools with organisations willing to donate surplus tech supplies that would otherwise be destroyed/end up in landfills.

🚀 Full CI/CD Pipeline and Cloud Deployment Project

This project demonstrates the complete end-to-end deployment of a containerized application using a modern DevOps toolchain. It covers everything from continuous integration to provisioning infrastructure and automating deployments in the cloud.

📌 Project Overview

The goal of this project was to build a scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure for a web application using best practices in Cloud & DevOps. It simulates a real-world production environment with a full CI/CD pipeline and cloud hosting using AWS.

🧱 Architecture

• Code Repository: GitHub
• CI/CD Automation: Jenkins
• Containerization: Docker
• Image Registry: Docker Hub
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• Cloud Provider: AWS

🔧 AWS Architecture

• VPC with Subnets
  • Public Subnet: Hosts API servers (EC2 instances)
  • Private Subnet: Hosts database servers (EC2 instance)
• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): Routes traffic to the API instances
• EC2 Instances: Used for API and Database layers

⚙️ Workflow

1. Code Push: Developer pushes code to GitHub
2. CI Trigger: Jenkins is triggered and:
   • Builds the Docker image
   • Pushes the image to Docker Hub
3. Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform sets up AWS resources
4. Deployment: Ansible pulls the Docker image from Docker Hub and deploys the containers to EC2 instances
5. Traffic Management: ELB distributes traffic across API instances

📦 Tools & Technologies

Category	Tool / Service
Version Control	GitHub
CI/CD	Jenkins
Containerization	Docker
Image Registry	Docker Hub
IaC	Terraform
Configuration Management	Ansible
Cloud Provider	AWS (EC2, ELB, VPC)

🌐 Outcome

• Fully automated build, test, and deployment pipeline
• Infrastructure created and managed as code
• Decoupled architecture with scalability and security in mind
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools in a real-world scenario

🚀 Getting Started

To test or deploy the project:

1. Clone the repository
2. Update AWS credentials and backend config in terraform/
3. Run terraform apply to provision infrastructure
4. Trigger Jenkins pipeline manually or via GitHub push
5. Use Ansible to deploy containers to provisioned EC2 instances