strapi-aws-cdk

Goal:

This repo uses the AWS CDK to deploy a base strapi project.

1. RDS postgresql instance
2. Fargate Task
3. Application Load Balancer
4. Iam Roles

Required environmental variables

proccess.env[variable];

• REGION: region of the aws account target
• SECRET_ARN: For an added level of security, you must create a secret value in AWS secrets manager for the strapi database creds
• CDK_DEFAULT_REGION: region that the cli of the cdk is set too
• CDK_DEFAULT_Account=target aws account number

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js

• npm run watch watch for changes and compile

• npm run test perform the jest unit tests

• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region

• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state

• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template