HydroVIS Development & Operations of Infrastructure as Code

This repository should contain all the information about the system, to ensure that any change (source code, documentation, policies, users etc.) is tracked.

The main folder that holds the infrastructure for the ti/uat/prod environments is the Core folder. The Dev folder is utilized to develop new features which will be later integrated into the Core folder. Finally, the Scripts folder is a collection of helper scripts to aid in importing existing resources into Terraform configurations and other tasks.

Initial Setup

In order to use this repository, you need to do the following:

• Clone this repository.
• Copy the sentitive data folder from other loction into the Core folder of this repo.
• Install the AWS CLI tools and Terraform onto your machine.
• Follow the instructions found here and here to get aws profiles set up for the ti/uat/prod environments.
• Run terraform init in the Core folder to get everything initialized.

Developing new features

The workflow for developing new features in HydroVIS is as follows:

• Create a new feature branch from the existing uat branch.
• Copy relevant resources from the Core folder into the Dev folder and/or use the existing Dev/main.tf as a template for a new feature module.
• Fill out the Dev/sensitive/envs/env.dev.yaml with the relevant information.
• Deploy and test your new features.
• Once development is finished, reintegrate the resources in the Dev folder into the Core folder and reset the Dev folder back to how it was originally.
• Create a pull request to have your new feature branch merged into the ti branch.