Research: Moving FOLA from Heroku to AWS

[MatthewBozin]

Overview

The Devops community of practice has mentioned moving applications from other hosting services to AWS. The purpose of this research is to determine the viability of moving FOLA hosting and deployment from Heroku to AWS.

Currently, FOLA's api server and static pages are all hosted from a single docker container. Because Heroku can easily run docker containers, all that is required is to configure environment variables with Heroku in order to deploy the app.

Because FOLA's database and geolocational API are both hosted on AWS, there could be value in consolidating hosting and deployment to AWS.

Action Items

1. Connect with devops community of practice and ask about recent deployment plans/standards
2. Determine viability of moving the app from heroku to AWS
3. Estimate cost, ease of use, and ease of maintenance of a potential AWS configuration
4. Draft technical specification for potential AWS configuration