AIRFLOW README & Answers to Questions presented by the Project Team

DevOps Admin: Erich EJ Best
email:        [email protected]
phone:        201-218-9860

Approach and Choices Explained

•	I chose to use the airflow https://airflow.apache.org/installation.html and utilize available installation choices.

Choices you had to make due to time pressure

•	Currently working 12 hours daily 7 days or so at my current job (severty 1 outage and conference calls) there was limited time and days where no time was available.  Most of the time looking at this project was multi-tasking.

•	Chose to deliver the project using a combination of a scripted solution using the tools of AWS CLI, Terraform and User_Data to get a single execution automated solution.

Known deviations from best practice or real production setup

•	Adherence to an Enterprise Security Solution would be a best practice and is not part of this model.

•	A DNS solution should be used and would need to be part of the solution (DNS worked in my testing lab).

•	In a production setup would have a more robust Pipeline including orchestration and tracking DevOps solutions.

•	Used the ec2-user account; seen there could be a airflow account used or follow the Enterprise.

•	The overall security, networking and ports should be given attention.

Description of the setup, why you chose the technologies used in your stack

•	Terraform is the main technology used in the stack and would have expanded this for organizational framework, tracking and transparencies using other tools in the stack.

•	Based on the lack of available time constraint; getting the application deployed in raw automation, was a solution that was possible.

Anything else you think would be good to know

•	If there were a chance for more time, would have preferred to submit a Jenkins solution using a Shift Left DevOps Solution with a Jenkinsfile in GitHub and Pipeline to deploy.  Still would be using the script; perhaps slightly adjusted and all the Python dependences using a Chef Cookbook/Recipe.   Please let me know if this option is possible?