Introduction

This site has been created to document my approach to sample Acme Ltd case study.

Here I will:

• Capture the requirements and assumptions.
• Present solution options and rationale for selected options.
• Present a business case for the solution.
• Present a brief overall design.
• Point to the GitHub repo where this solution is stored.

To proceed, please follow the navigation links above.

Some Key Links

• This documentation site
• Repo on GitHub
• The Demo Application, on GCP (now decommissioned, as there’s a cost to running it!)
  • Billing Dashboard
  • Dev-1 Environment Ghost Application
  • Cloud Function Posts-Get (access requires an account within the demo organisation)

Repo Layout

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├── docs                              # The documentation website src for ths repo
│   ├── pages                           # Content pages
│   ├── _data                           # Lookups, e.g. site navigation
│   ├── _layouts                        # Page templates
│   └── assets                          # Styling and images
├── iac                               # IaC
│   ├── 0-infra-bootstrap               # Create the Terraform bootstrap project, service account and permissions
│   ├── 1-cloud-build-shared-services   # Create the project for hosting the Cloud Build CI/CD pipeline
│   ├── 2-project-factory-init          # Terraform Project Factory for creating repeatable project environments
│   ├── 3-project-factory-network       # Terraform for deploying standard networking to the project
│   ├── 4-app-infra-db                  # Terraform for deploying HA DB, and DB secrets
│   └── 5-app-infra-frontend            # Terraform for deploying Ghost app servers, MIGs, load balancer
├── purge-app                         # Application for viewing and purging Ghost posts, written in Python.
│   └── tf-purge-app                     # Terraform for deploying Cloud Functions; expected to be triggered by Cloud Build
└── README.md                         # Repo readme

About Me

My name is Darren Lester. I am an experienced enterprise architect with a focus on technology, cloud, and hosting infrastructure.

The content presented here is my own work. It is the accompanying documentation (e.g. solution options, solution design, deployment instructions, etc) for a case study I have implemented using Google Cloud.

Check out some of my other content:

• My GitHub Homepage
• My Blog
• My Content on Medium