About CloudKitect

CloudKitect revolutionizes the way technology organizations adopt cloud computing by providing innovative, secure, and cost-effective turnkey solution that fast-tracks the AWS Adoption. Think of CloudKitect as Cloud Architect as a Service.

About CloudKitect Patterns.

CloudKitect Patterns offer turnkey architecture using pre-built patterns for frequently used infrastructures such as website hosting, REST APIs, and container based applications, etc. Premium version of CloudKitect Patterns utilized enhanced components, that offer out of the box compliance and monitoring at every level of your infrastructure. In addition to the freemium patterns, enterprise patterns offer virous other patterns such as serverless virus scanner, event sourcing pattern, GenAI pipelines etc. You can view details and demos by visiting our website cloudkitect.com

Developer Workstation Setup

Primarily, CloudKitect prioritizes enhancing the developer experience, thus all our products are designed with the developer community at the forefront. Consequently, to utilize the product, developers need to initially set up their workstations with the necessary development tools. You can either follow the steps below or watch this Video

Step 1: Install NPM

NPM is a package manager for javascript and typescript based projects. Depending on your OS, install NPM.

Step 1a: Mac Users

Mac users can use homebrew to install node which will also install npm

brew upgrade
brew install node

Step 1b: Windows Users

Windows users can download the installer from Here

After the download of the installer package, follow these steps.

• Double-click on the downloaded file (.msi file).
• During installation, make sure to check the option "Add Node.js to Path". This will allow you to access npm commands from any directory in your command prompt.
• Make sure you choose npm package manager , not the default of Node.js runtime.
• This way, we can install Node and NPM simultaneously. Finally, click on install

Windows users can also use Chocolatey package manager, and install using the following command

chco install nodejs

For other Operating Systems follow the instructions Here

Step 1c: Verify Installation

Open a new terminal on your workstation and run the following commands to verify the installation:

node -v
npm -v

Step 2: Install NVM (Optional)

It is recommended to install nvm, for managing various versions of nodejs. For Mac

brew install nvm

For other OS

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
OR
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Step 2a: Install Node via nvm

Install node version 18 or later, using nvm

nvm install 18
nvm use 18

Step 3: Install AWS CLI

Install AWS cli to interact with your AWS account using terminal

Step 3a: Mac Users

Mac users can use homebrew to install node which will also install npm

brew upgrade
brew install awscli

Step 3b: Windows Users

• Visit the AWS CLI to download the installer Download Page
• Double-click the downloaded .msi file and follow the instructions.

Follow other OS follow instructions Here

Step 3c: Verify Installation

Open a new terminal on your workstation and run the following commands to verify the installation:

aws --version

Step 4: Install AWS CDK

Step 4a: Mac and Windows Users

Run the following command in your terminal.

npm install -g aws-cdk

Step 4b: Verify Installation

Open a new terminal on your workstation and run the following commands to verify the installation:

cdk --version

Step 5: Install typescript

Step 5a: Mac and Windows Users

Run the following command in your terminal.

npm -g install typescript

Step 5b: Verify Installation

Open a new terminal on your workstation and run the following commands to verify the installation:

tsc --version

Step 6: AWS Account Setup

Your AWS account needs to be setup and bootstrapped for CDK deployment

Step 6a: Create a user with Admin privileges

Create a user named "deployer" (you can give it any name) with Admin permissions in the AWS account where application will be deployed.

6b: Create Access key

Create Access Keys for the deployer user.

6c: Configure AWS CLI

Run the following command and follow the instructions by providing your access key and secret key

aws configure --profile deployer

6d: Route53 Hosted Zone

These components assume that there is a Route53 Hosted zone present in the AWS account where the application is deployed. So create a hosted zone for a domain you own. e.g. example.com and update the nameservers to point to this hosted zone.

6e: Bootstrap AWS Account for CDK Deployment

cdk bootstrap aws://ACCOUNT_ID/us-east-1 --profile deployer

Step 7: Create CDK project

NOTE: DEPLOYING THESE APPLICATIONS IN YOUR AWS ACCOUNT WILL INCUR COST THAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, SO MAKE SURE YOU SHUT DOWN YOUR APPLICATION ONCE YOU ARE DONE.

Step 7a: Create and initialize CDK project

Run the following commands to scaffold a CDK project

mkdir my-project
cd my-project
cdk init app --language typescript 

Step 7b: Open Project in IDE of your choice

For example Visual Studio or IntelliJ etc.

Step 7c: Add CloudKitect Dependencies

Open package.json file in your project and under dependencies add the following two dependencies, check for the current released version and use that version instead of "0.0.0"

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@cloudkitect/components": "0.0.0", 
    "@cloudkitect/patterns": "0.0.0",
    ...
  }
}

Step 7d: Install dependencies

npm install

Step 8: Build Your App

Step 8a:

Open the my-project.ts file under lib directory, and add the following lines to it, replace 'AWS_ACCOUNT_ID' with your AWS account Id. You can also change the 'ckApplication' and 'ckCompany' names.

#!/usr/bin/env node
import 'source-map-support/register';
import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { MyProjectStack } from '../lib/my-project-stack';
import {CkAccountType} from "@cloudkitect/components";

const app = new cdk.App();

const devEnv = { account: "AWS_ACCOUNT_ID", region: "us-east-1" };

const stackProps = {
    ckAccountType: CkAccountType.DEVELOPMENT,
    ckApplication: "TestApp",
    ckCompany: "CloudKitect",
};

new MyProjectStack(app, 'MyProjectStack', {
    ...stackProps,
    env: devEnv
});

Step 8b: Create Website Infrastructure

Under lib directory, open the file named. my-project-stack.ts. Then copy and paste the following code Change 'ckDomainName' to match the domain name that is currently setup in Route53. .

import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import {CkStack, CkStackProps} from "@cloudkitect/components";
import {CkServerlessWebsite} from "@cloudkitect/patterns"

export class MyProjectStack extends CkStack {
    constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: CkStackProps) {
        super(scope, id, props);

        new CkServerlessWebsite(this, 'TestSite', {
            ckDomainName: 'socalstartups.net',
            ckPathToContent: './site-content',
        });

    }
}

Step 8c: Create website code.

Create a directory site-content under the directory my-project and add index.html. In real project this directory will contain your angular, reactjs etc. app. You can also change 'ckPathToContent' to point to the location where your existing web application artifacts are present, such as react/angular app dist folder

cd my-project
mkdir site-content
cd site-content
echo "CloudKitect is Awesome" >> index.html

Step 8d: Deploy the stack.

Let's deploy the stack to our AWS account.

cdk deploy --require-approval never --profile deployer

Step 8e: Verify Deployment

Once the deployment completes it will output the url for your website, copy and paste it in your browser. The website should display the message "CloudKitect is Awesome".

Step 9: Container App Deployment

Next we will deploy a containerized app.

Step 9a: Create an ECR Repository

Login to your AWS account, goto ECR repository and create a new repository. You can name anything but in this example we are using name "addressbook"

Step 9b: Push your docker image to ecr

Login to ecr repository, replace AWS_ACCOUNT_ID with your aws account id.

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 --profile deployer | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Step9c: Build your docker images

docker build -t APP_NAME . 

Tag your image and give it a version 1.0

docker tag APP_NAME:latest AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/APP_NAME:1.0

Push your image

docker push AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/APP_NAME:1.0

Step 9d: Update your stack

Add the following code to your stack. Change the 'ckDomainName' to match your Route53 Hosted zone

import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import {CkStack, CkStackProps} from "@cloudkitect/components";
import {CkServerlessContainerApps, CkServerlessWebsite} from "@cloudkitect/patterns"
import {Repository} from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ecr";
import {Aws} from "aws-cdk-lib";
import {ContainerImage} from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-ecs";

export class MyProjectStack extends CkStack {
    constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: CkStackProps) {
        super(scope, id, props);

        new CkServerlessWebsite(this, 'TestSite', {
            ckDomainName: 'socalstartups.net',
            ckSubdomain: 'test',
            ckPathToContent: './site-content',
        });

        const repo = Repository.fromRepositoryAttributes(this, 'Repo', {
            repositoryArn: `arn:aws:ecr:${Aws.REGION}:${Aws.ACCOUNT_ID}:repository/addressbook`,
            repositoryName: 'addressbook',
        });

        const container = new CkServerlessContainerApps(this, 'NodeApp', {
            ckDomainName: 'socalstartups.net',
            ckSubDomain: 'app',
        });

        container.addService({
            ckServiceName: 'NodeAppService',
            ckImage: ContainerImage.fromEcrRepository(repo, '1.0'),
            ckContainerPort: 8080,
        });

    }
}

Step 9e: Deploy our updated stack

Let's deploy the updated stack to our AWS account.

cdk deploy --require-approval never --profile deployer

Step 9f: Verify Application

Once deployed it will output the endpoint of your application. Copy and paste it in your browser.

Step 10: Destroy Application

Once you have verified clean up resources by destroying your stack and avoid further cost.

cdk destroy --profile deployer