Overview
The Ordinary Experts Pixelfed Pattern is an open-source AWS CloudFormation template that offers an easy-to-install AWS infrastructure solution for quickly deploying Pixelfed, using both AWS and Pixelfed best practices. Automatically configured to support auto-scaling through AWS Autoscaling Groups, this solution leverages an S3 bucket for user generated content between application servers. It also provisions an ElastiCache Redis cluster for cache. It configures SES with Easy DKIM for emails, and configures Route53 with convenient DNS entries. The template ensure multi-level security by incorporating AWS IAM for federated access to resources with least privilege and AWS managed keys and Secret Manager to manage secrets for encryption of data at rest and in transit. We support multiple availability zones using an RDS Aurora MySQL cluster and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups. However, only one instance at a time is supported.
Highlights
- Production-ready Pixelfed v0.11.9 site, with search, email, and caching
- Integrated with AWS Certificate Manager for HTTPS support
- Logs in CloudWatch Logs, Remote access via Session Manager
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.01 | $0.006 | $0.016 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.01 | $0.012 | $0.022 |
t2.small | $0.01 | $0.023 | $0.033 |
t2.medium | $0.01 | $0.046 | $0.056 |
t2.large | $0.01 | $0.093 | $0.103 |
t2.xlarge | $0.01 | $0.186 | $0.196 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.03 | $0.371 | $0.401 |
t3.nano | $0.01 | $0.005 | $0.015 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.02 |
t3.small | $0.01 | $0.021 | $0.031 |
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Ordinary Experts Pixelfed Pattern
The Ordinary Experts Pixelfed Patterns AWS Architecture Diagram shows the total flow of services from when the customer accesses the Pixelfed application. The diagram shows the following AWS Services: Amazon Simple Storage System (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Public Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Aurora MySQL, Amazon Secrets Manager, and Amazon ElastiCache.
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
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See GitHub project for release notes.
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Usage instructions
Run the stack, providing a valid parameters. When the stack creation completes, go to the outputs of the stack and open url in the outputs in your browser. To access the application servers, find the EC2 instance in the AWS console and "Connect" using the Session Manager option. All information gathered by the Pixelfed application is stored either on encrypted EBS volumes, in its encrypted Aurora database or on S3 using server-side encryption. To monitor for the health of the application, check the ALB Health Dashboard. Several IAM resources are provisioned as part of this product: SesInstanceUser IAM user - used to generate an Access Key for SMTP email sending via SES and to upload items to the Pixelfed bucket. SesGenerateSMTPPasswordLambdaRole IAM role - used by Lambda to generate SMTP password based on Access Key and store in Secrets Manager. AsgInstanceRole IAM role - attached to EC2 instance and allows for association of EBS and ENIs as well as downloading artifacts from S3. AsgSubnetToAzLambdaRole IAM role - attached to the AsgSubnetToAzLambda function which maps subnets to AZs. For network configuration, please reference the architecture diagram. For a pricing breakdown, please reference the AWS Calculator link. For more detailed instructions, see the GitHub project.
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