Security is the biggest issue any businesses face with legacy applications. Along with high-security vulnerability, slow development cycle, and app crashes are other major issues you face when you don’t modernize your legacy apps.
One of our customers called EMFI faced similar challenges and we planned to modernize their legacy CMS with AWS technologies along with DevOps.
In this post, we will discuss how we modernized the CMS app of the client.
CONTAINERIZATION
We proposed to containerize the EMFI app using the AWS ECS Fargate service. It helped the customer to package the software code together with their related libraries, frameworks, and other dependencies.
It became easy for the customer to move and run the isolated containers in any OS and environment. With this, EMFI could easily fix bugs and glitches as containerization made the code independent from the surrounding environment.
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CI/CD IMPLEMENTATION
The process of shipping code was difficult. It took weeks to finish a release cycle. Simple issue fixes took two weeks to make it to production, and the releases themselves were brittle and prone to new bugs. Furthermore, the manual deployment process frequently failed.
Hence, we implemented CI/CD for EMFI apps by accelerating their software release cycle.
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
We set up Application Load Balancer which distributes the incoming traffic across containers. Upon distributing the traffic in the containers, it automatically scaled the workloads. Also, we deployed a monitoring dashboard on the datalog.
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CLOUD MIGRATION
EMFI kept their apps on private GitLab and we migrated the same into public SaaS GitHub. We also implemented an auto-scaling group comprising a collection of EC2 instances that are combined as a logical group. So, it becomes easy to scale the same with features including health check replacement and scaling policies.
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
We also deployed Terraform, an open-source tool for infrastructure as code. Our team managed and provisioned the data centers through machine-readable definition files to get rid of physical hardware configuration or any other interactive configuration tools.
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ECS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) offers businesses a highly scalable and quick container management service. It enables businesses to easily run, stop, and manage containers on a cluster. It is also a fully managed container orchestration service. With its deep integration with the rest of the services, it is one of the most popular solutions to run your container workload anywhere.
ECS CLUSTER
An Amazon ECS cluster is a regional grouping of one or more container instances on which you can run task requests. It can be a logical group of capacity providers or container instances. If you run services or tasks that use EC2 launch type, the ECS cluster is a group of container instances and if you use the capacity providers, an ECS cluster is a capacity provider.
ECS TASK DEFINITION
We used task definition to run the docker containers that are used to run the application. You can specify various containers in a task definition. There are task definition parameters and not all parameters are valid. And the parameters vary as per the launch types.
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. It is nothing but a basic computer virtually present in the AWS cloud which you can access and do whatever you can do on a basic computer.
EC2 INSTANCE AND ECS SERVICES
ECS services define the minimum and the maximum tasks that are running from a single task definition at any given point.
VPC
We implemented a virtual private cloud (VPC), which is a secure, isolated private cloud hosted within a public cloud. Along with this, we implemented an application load balancer that allowed a developer to configure and route incoming end-user traffic to applications based in the AWS public cloud.
IAM AND RDS
Our team also deployed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to enable EMFI to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.
Apart from this, we facilitated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) which made it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
MODERNIZE YOUR APPS WITH US
AAIC is an advanced AWS partner with DevOps expertise. Deeply inspired by automation and AI, we at AAIC have been transforming many organizations to leverage cloud and DevOps with our impeccable expertise. Our AWS and DevOps engineers directly consult you to understand your legacy apps and advise changes accordingly. With us, reduce your time to market and get data security with advanced cloud solutions.
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