This is the back-end of the student assignment submission portal web application that is hosted on an AWS EC2 instance.

Here are the links to the Pulumi code that deploys the infrastructure and the Lambda function:

• Pulumi infrastructure - https://github.com/detective-sokka/iac-pulumi
• Lambda function - https://github.com/detective-sokka/serverless

1. Node.js(javascript) - Used to run the backend of the application
2. Github actions using YAML - Running unit tests and integrations tests to ensure Continuos Testing and Continuous Integration
3. Bash script (instance_setup.sh) - Used to setup the web application and install the dependencies in the Virtual machine
4. MySql database using Sequelize ORM - Used to store the user login data, assignments and submissions.
5. HCL packer script (ami.pkr.hcl) - Used to create the AMI in the dev environment

1. Install npm (On linux you can use sudo apt-get install npm)
2. Install mysql (On linux you can use this tutorial)

1. Run npm i on the root directory
2. Run node index.js this should run the application
3. To test the healthz api run npm test

1. Run tar -czvf webapp.tar.gz to compress
2. Run scp -i [identity-file] webapp.tar.gz [username]@[server-ip]
3. Connect to server using ssh command
4. Follow the steps mentioned above to run, make sure the .env file is configured properly

1. Run packer init .
2. Run packer build ami.pkr.hcl