Shift

Automated infrastructure creation and deployment tool.

About

Shift focuses on creating your infrastructure with ease and automating your deployments.

Usage

1. Install Shift:

$ curl -sf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leapfrogtechnology/shift/master/install.sh | sudo sh

2. Verify Installation:

$ shift-cli

3. AWS Credentials

Before using shift, you have to provide your AWS credentials. Also, make sure you have the correct access for your credentials.

Simply create ~/.aws/credentials file for storing AWS credentials.
Example:

[example-profile]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxxxxx

To know more about AWS configurations, view Configuring the AWS CLI

4. Setup

Go to your project directory and run setup command to initiate the setup process.

$ shift-cli setup

• Enter the name of your project
• Choose the platform
• Choose your AWS profile that was setup earlier.
• Choose the AWS Region where you want your infrastructure to be created.
• Choose the type of deployment you want.
• Name your environment.
• If Backend:
  • Enter your application port
  • Enter healthcheck path
  • Enter dockerfile path
• Enter Slack webhook URL

 Example:

 Project Name: shiftbeta
 Choose Cloud Provider: AWS
 Choose AWS profile: default
 Region: US East (North Virginia)
 Choose Deployment Type: Backend
 Environment Name: dev
 Application port: 8080
 Heathcheck Path: /api
 Dockerfile Path: ./
 Slack Webhook URL: https://webhook.slack.com

shift.json file will be created in your project directory like below.

{
  "name": "shiftbeta",
  "platform": "AWS",
  "profile": "default",
  "region": "us-east-1",
  "type": "Backend",
  "port": "80",
  "dockerFilePath": "./",
  "healthCheckPath": "/",
  "env": {
    "dev": {
      "cluster": "shiftbeta-dev",
      "service": "shiftbeta-dev",
      "image": "009409476372.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/shiftbeta/dev-backend",
      "taskDefinition": "shiftbeta-dev"
    }
  }
}

If you do not want a project-specific config file, you can skip the above step.

5. Deploy

$ shift-cli deploy [env]
$ shift-cli deploy dev

Here dev is the environment you specified in shif.json.

6. Destroy

$ shift-cli destroy [env]

Destroy infrastracture.

7. Usage with CI/CD:

Instead of setting up a ~/.aws/credentials file. You can also use the following environment variables to set up your AWS credentials.

Variable	Description
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	Your AWS access key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	Your AWS secret key
AWS_REGION	AWS region where you added your secret