5 Minute Production App

1 post · Dec 2020 – Mar 2021

What this trail covers

GitLab is developing a '5 Minute Production App' template that leverages Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GitLab CI/CD to automate the provisioning of cloud resources (PostgreSQL, Redis, S3) and deployment of web applications. This aims to simplify the process of getting a production-ready application online, contrasting with the manual CLI-driven approach of platforms like Heroku. The template supports managed stateful services and integrates with GitLab's DevSecOps features.

All GitLab trails

Mar 2021We are very far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloudThis post introduces the '5 Minute Production App' template, demonstrating its use by deploying a sample battleship game. It highlights the automation of provisioning PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3 in AWS using Terraform via GitLab CI/CD. The post contrasts this with Heroku's manual CLI-based setup for stateful services and emphasizes the benefits of IaC and managed cloud services for simplified production deployments. It also shows how to integrate Dependency Scanning and SAST.
Feb 2021GitOps & DevSecOps for production infrastructure in minutesThis post details the 'Five Minute Production App' initiative, which blends AWS, Terraform, and GitLab to achieve production-grade infrastructure and DevSecOps workflows in under five minutes. It outlines the three stages: Build (containerizing web applications using Auto Build), Provision (using Terraform to set up AWS resources like EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and S3, tied to Git branches), and Deploy (retrieving container images and infrastructure credentials from GitLab to deploy the application, with SSL certificate generation via Certbot). It emphasizes the complete GitOps convergence where application source code, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, state, secrets, and environment configurations all reside within a GitLab project.
Dec 2020A journey from the first code to CI/CD deployments in 5 minutes?This post details the vision and initial stack decisions for the '5 Minute Production App' template, aiming to automate the provisioning of cloud resources (AWS, Terraform, RDS) and deployment of web applications (Rails, Python) via GitLab UI and Auto DevOps. It highlights the challenges of Kubernetes and microservices adoption, the need for automated backend management, and the decision to use container images and the GitLab Container Registry. Future iterations will include domain/SSL support, review environments, more cloud providers, and decoupled database management.
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