PROJECT
CHALLENGES
- Reliance on Heroku limited flexibility and infrastructure control.
- No disaster recovery setup or automated environment provisioning.
- Multiple environments needed orchestration.
- Downtime during migration had to be minimized.
GOALS
- Smoothly migrate production and development environments from Heroku to AWS.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Automate CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
- Enable future scalability with minimal manual configuration.
- Build a reliable disaster recovery and backup process.
SOLUTIONS
- Designed new infrastructure architecture on AWS.
- Set up development and production environments using AWS EKS, Aurora, and Redis.
- Automated environment setup with Terraform.
- Configured CI/CD workflows for GitHub Actions.
- Built a downtime page and coordinated staged deployment.
- Initiated downtime and redirected users via a maintenance page.
- Migrated production databases from Heroku to AWS Aurora.
- Switched DNS routing to AWS infrastructure.
- Scaled architecture to support web, backend, and mobile services.
- Implemented database scrambling scripts for data integrity and privacy.
- Validated disaster recovery processes.
- Decommissioned Heroku environments.
TECHNOLOGIES
- Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, Aurora, Elasticache, EC2, S3), Redis, Terraform
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
RESULTS
- Smooth infrastructure migration with minimal downtime.
- Reduced monthly infrastructure costs with scalable AWS setup.
- Fully automated environment provisioning through Terraform.
- Improved system resilience and faster recovery planning.
- Enabled multi-environment orchestration.
- Comprehensive documentation and backup protocols to ensure future reliability.