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Description

This exercise evaluates your ability to build and manage infrastructure for a small web application. You’ll work with Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS to provision resources, configure deployments, and demonstrate infrastructure-as-code best practices.

Business Background

Infrastructure & Automation

The operations team is working on automating the deployment pipeline for a Python-based application. Our goal is to containerize the app, provision cloud infrastructure with Terraform, and define CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions. We want to ensure deployments are consistent, secure, and easily maintainable across environments. The files for the app are available on the bottom of this page.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

You’ll find a small Python application and a Terraform folder already included. Your task is to:

Terraform

Provision the following resources using Terraform:

• ECR repository for storing Docker images (you may use GitHub Container Registry instead).
• ECS cluster and ECS service to run the containerized app.
• RDS instance using PostgreSQL.
• (Bonus) Configure PostgreSQL users and permissions via Terraform.

Avoid using open source or prebuilt Terraform modules for ECS or networking—we want to evaluate your ability to build these from scratch.

Application Setup

• Add instructions in the README for how to run the app locally using a virtual environment.
• Locally, the app should run using venv; in production, it should be deployed using the provided Dockerfile.

Automation Requirements