Serverless Rails
Learn how to deploy a dockerised Ruby on Rails application on AWS using only 'serverless' products:
- Fargate (ECS)
- Aurora Serverless
- S3 & CloudFront
- Elasticache
- Route53 & ACM
- SSM Parameters
I'm supposed to click through all that in the AWS Console?
What? No, silly! It's provisioned with
Terraform,
and nearly zero manual setup in AWS console. Sign up, make an IAM
user... that's it!
So this is a course or a book or something?
It's more like a 'thing on the internet'.
...but how much does it cost?
How about sending 5% of what you make this month to your favourite charity.
Don't have a favourite? Try these:
It's mostly vanilla Rails, but in the real world you inevitably end up with extra bits, so this project uses some of those:
Pfft Rails isn't serverless!
Isn't it? Ok, maybe not, but it can feel close if you use serverless technologies to do your deployment. Then you still get to use Rails.
Wait, isn't Rails dead?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ _(ツ)_
It's pronounced 'jif'.
:nods: