CloudFormation template for highly available & secure WordPress deployment with RDS and custom VPC on AWS.

This CloudFormation template creates a custom VPC with 2 public and 2 private subnets.

• VPC
• 4 Subnets
• Route Tables
• Internet Gateway
• NAT Gateway

This CloudFormation template creates security groups.

• Load Balancer Security Group
• Database Security Group
• Application Security Group

This CloudFormation template creates a RDS with MySQL Engine.

• Subnet Group
• RDS

This CloudFormation template creates a ASG and LB to deploy the application.

• Launch Configuration
• Auto Scaling Group
• Scaling Policy
• Target Group
• Load Balancer
• HTTP Listener
• HTTPS listener

• Higly Available, Scalable and Secure Architecture
• End-to-End Automated

• Must have an AMI with Nginx & Php-Fpm configured
• Application should return 200 Status Code on some path for health checks
• Must have a registered domain
• Must have certificate ARN of a Domain

Clone the repository and use the yaml files to create stack in the following order:-

• Networking Layer
• Security Layer
• Data Layer
• Compute Layer Fill all the parameter value and create stack.

• Add Backup for media content using S3 Bucket.
• Add a Bastion or VPN server to administer application instances securely.
• Add Secret Manager or SSM Paramtere store to store RDS credentials.
• Add domain mapping for LB in Route53.