This project demonstrates a containerized Python Flask web application deployed on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) with RDS (Relational Database Service) as the backend database, all managed through Terraform infrastructure as code.

• Frontend: Python Flask web application
• Container: Docker container running on AWS ECS
• Database: AWS RDS (MySQL/MariaDB)
• Infrastructure: Managed through Terraform

• AWS Account with appropriate permissions
• Terraform installed locally
• Docker installed locally
• AWS CLI configured
• Python 3.x
• pip package manager

1. Build the Docker image:

docker build -t orbwatch .

2. Run the container locally:

docker run -d --net=host orbwatch

The infrastructure is split into two parts: network and application infrastructure. Each has its own Terraform configuration.

1. Navigate to the network directory:

cd terraform/network

2. Initialize Terraform:

terraform init

3. Review the planned changes:

terraform plan

4. Apply the network infrastructure:

terraform apply

1. Navigate to the infrastructure directory:

cd terraform/infra

2. Initialize Terraform:

terraform init

3. Review the planned changes:

terraform plan

4. Apply the application infrastructure:

terraform apply

Note: The network infrastructure must be deployed before the application infrastructure, as the application infrastructure depends on the network resources.

Required environment variables:

• DB_HOST: RDS endpoint
• DB_USER: Database username
• DB_PASSWORD: Database password
• DB_NAME: Database name