aws-service-region-migration

Migrate a service behind an ALB to a new region. This repo is used to set up the infrastructure used to show how to migrate a service to a new region for a webinar.

Setup

1. Create an IAM user with sufficient permissions to create the infrastructure you require. Generate an API key for the user, and create a named profile in ~/.aws/credentials that looks like this:

[aws-webinar]
aws_access_key_id = your_api_key
aws_secret_access_key = your_api_key_secret

2. Create an S3 bucket in your region of choice. Edit infra/terraform-state.tf by replacing the bucket, region and profile values to what you have configured.

3. Run terraform init in the infra directory.

4. In infra/variables.tf, change the github_username and github_repo_name defaults to your ones.

5. Create infra/secret.tf with the following:

locals {
  webhook_secret  = "web-hook-secret-shared-string"
  github_token    = "github-token-with-permission-to-create-webhooks"
  github_username = "cobusbernard"
}