DevOps Challenge

This was a challenge interview for a senior devops position.

In this task, you'll write code that provisions a web server and database to the cloud. We will be looking at your skills in the following areas:

• setting up infrastructure from scratch,
• approaching a problem, and
• documenting your solution.

This is a timeboxed task so feel free to explain tradeoffs, or how you would improve aspects of the solution given more time.

Technical Test

Instructions

• Provision a web server and SQL database to the cloud using infrastructure as code
• The application needs to be reachable from the internet
• The database needs to be reachable from the application
• The deployment needs to be highly available (HA), multiple zones or regions
• Write documentation which provides a clear way to recreate your setup and test the application is running correctly

Tools

• Pick any web server, as long as it can respond to HTTP requests on port 80 or 443
• Pick any SQL database
• The cloud infrastructure provider can be either Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Use any configuration management tool

Bonus points

• Use some of the current tools we use: Terraform, Kubernetes
• Emphasize readability, maintainability, security, and DevOps methodologies.
• As this is timeboxed, explain tradeoffs you made in these areas and how they could be improved.