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Project Athens
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Project Athens is an effort to consolidate my own online presence
onto a common platform that is not only easier to maintain
but also more managable from an operations pov.
Most of the code in this repository has to do with the infrastructure
of the project which is used to host services that I host myself.
Section 1. Preamble/Abstract
============================
This explanation will take on a bottom up approach because the technical
goals/processes are what make up the deliverable value(to myself).
Also this project is just for me so fuck off if you don't like it.
Section 2. The Hosts/Services
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Services to host are listed below with their respective roles:
Docker host:
- Discord Chat Bots
- Lewdlad(Server Management Chat Bot)
- Musical Maurice(Music Voice Bot)
- My personal clippable instance
Static Nginx server:
- Personal Website
Served under shockrah.xyz
- Resume Website
Served under resume.shockrah.xyz
- Frechat Documentation
Served under freechat.shockrah.xyz
SSH/Ansible Host
This is the dev box that I use to patch things in the
VPC. This way we only accept internal SSH connections.
Rationale: To reduce surface area to the outside werld
Section 3. Codenames
====================
Below are the codenames which Terraform code uses in order to
Alpha - Docker host
Beta - Static Nginx Server
Gamma - Dev/Ansible host
Crete - Primary Subnet used to host stuff
Olympus - [not sure where this fits but doc'd for future]
(Potential) Secondary subnet used to host (bigger) projects
Section 4. Network Layout
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Crete
Refers to the primary subnet that most services live on.
Subnet 10.0.0.128/25
Alpha
Public IP: not required
Internal IP: 10.0.1.1
Beta
Public IP: required for public websites
Gamma
Ephemeral: only up when absolutely required
Will request Elastic IP when it needs one
however it will release the IP when not
required to reduce overall cost of running this system
Section 5. Image's Used for Hosting
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Primary Image Used
AMI - Ubuntu 20.04
Rationale - It's the current LTS release so sec patches
will come in regularly and has good operability with
most of the tools I plan on using anyway. Most services
which are getting containerized rely on Alpine so
as long as Docker is properly updated maintaining
posture on this shouldn't be too bad.
Firewall setup
Most of the firewall setup sits in AWS however they
should probably be mirrored on each host in case one
of these layers fails for some reason.
- TODO: This is going to have be be done via Ansible
Instance Types with rationale
Alpa - t3.small(Maybe)
Slightly heavier because it must run multiple
chatbots and clippable but all are extremely
lightweight. This might have to be pushed later
to medium but for now it's fine.
Beta - t3.micro
Nginx server
Gamma - t3.micro
Ansible host