Cloud Sandbox

Cloud Sandbox deploys sandbox EC2 instances on AWS. I personally used them for training sessions (Docker, Ansible, etc.) but they can be used for pretty much anything.

Sandboxes provides various tooling and services by default:

• Reachable via human-friendly domain names such as alice.training.crafteo.io
• code-server available on port 8080 (with in-browser terminal)
• Direct SSH access on port 22
• Tooling: Docker, Docker Compose, Git, etc.

graph TD
    HZ[Route53 Hosted Zone<br>training.crafteo.io]
    
    DNSA[DNS Record<br>alice.training.crafteo.io]
    DNSB[DNS Record<br>bob.training.crafteo.io]
    
    EC2A[EC2 instance]
    EC2B[EC2 instance]

    HZ-.-DNSA
    HZ-.-DNSB

    DNSA-->EC2A
    DNSB-->EC2B

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Infra is deployed with Pulumi and each instance is provisioned by NixOS

Deploy Sandbox instances

Requirements

• Nix (provides development shell with Ansible, Pulumi and other dependencies)
• AWS account with permission on Route53 and EC2
• An existing Route53 Hosted Zone for sandbox domain name, such as training.crafteo.io

Configuration

• Update .novops.yml with your desired environments

Deploy

Start a Nix shell with all required dependencies:

nix develop

EC2 instances

Create Pulumi config under pulumi/sandbox/Pulumi.ENVIRONMENT.yaml (from pulumi/sandbox/Pulumi.template.yaml)

Deploy sandbox EC2 instances:

# Deploy ec2 instances
task ec2-instances

# Start/stop instances
task stop-ec2-instances
task start-ec2-instances

Kubernetes cluster

Create Pulumi config under pulumi/eks/Pulumi.ENVIRONMENT.yaml (from pulumi/eks/Pulumi.template.yaml)

# Deploy EKS cluster
task k8s-all

Deploy Example Voting App:

kubectl apply -f example-voting-app/resources/k8s

Tests

Run tests:

task test-docker
task test-eks

Undeploy

Destroy everything that may be deployed (EC2 instances, Kubernetes, etc.)

task destroy-all