Scalable Employee Mgmt Portal

Scalable Employee Management Portal

Motivation:

In today's world, our application should be able to handle multiple requests from customers all around the world. So it is important to make an application fault-tolerant and able to scale as the need of the demand. This post talks about how to create a scalable web application using various AWS services like Load Balancers, Target Groups, Auto Scaling, Launch Configuration, Amazon Machine Image(AMI), Route 53, and so on.

Architecture:

Prerequisites:

1. AWS EC2
2. AWS AMI
3. Load Balancer
4. Auto Scaling Groups
5. MySQL Instance
6. Route 53

Replication Steps:

1. Create a config.ini file

[MYSQL]
user=
password=
host=
database=

2. Commands to confgure the application

git clone [email protected]:codexponent/scalable-employee-mgmt-portal.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

3. Create a reboot cronjob for the AMI Image

touch run.sh
echo "#!/bin/bash 
python main.py" > run.sh

crontab -e
@reboot /home/ec2-user/scalable-employee-mgmt-portal/run.sh

4. Start to create AMI Image written on the post.