LambdaBlogPlatform

serverless blogging platform built with AWS

Table of Contents

• About
• Installation prerequisites
• Installation

About

AWS Lambda Blog Platform is a complete blogging solution that uses the following Amazon Web Services for operation

• API Gateway
• Lambda
• DynamoDB
• S3
• Cloudfront
• SES

It runs completely serverless - free of any inflexible hardware infrastructure. The whole system running as a team of small misroservices means that the running expenses are without any overhead even at the smallest scale.

Installation prerequisites

• Have an AWS account
• Have your domain/subdomain set up in Route53
• make sure you can receive email on one of the following adressees for the approval of ssl certificate generation
• administrator@domain.com
• hostmaster@domain.com
• postmaster@domain.com
• webmaster@domain.com
• admin@domain.com
• request a new certificate in AWS ACM (https://console.aws.amazon.com/acm/home?region=us-east-1#/) (HAS TO BE ISSUED IN us-east-1 REGION!!!)
• if you are using just the domain - certificate name should be domain.com
• if you are using subdomain - certificate name should be subdomain.domain.com or *.domain.com

Installation

• download this repo, unzip and cd to project folder
• run npm install
• Create a new user in IAM
• [IAM -> Users -> Add User -> Access type -> check Programmatic access]
• On the last step click on "Download .csv file" and save the file in project folder
• Add permissions to the user
• [IAM -> Users -> your_user -> Permissions -> Add inline policy -> Custom policy]
• Copy the following JSON and give your inline policy a name

   {
       "Version": "2012-10-17",
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Sid": "Stmt1481118325000",
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": [
                   "iam:CreatePolicy",
                   "iam:CreateRole",
                   "iam:GetPolicy",
                   "iam:GetRole",
                   "iam:AttachUserPolicy",
                   "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
                   "iam:PassRole",
                   "route53:ListHostedZones",
                   "acm:ListCertificates",
                   "iam:ListUserPolicies",
                   "iam:GetUserPolicy"
               ],
               "Resource": [
                   "*"
               ]
           }
       ]
   }

• (install script will add other permisions that are necessary for installation)
• run node install.js
• wizard will take you through the process of installation
• if everything went smooth you should see your page after CloudFront changes resolve (usually takes around 15 minutes)