Seed-Farmer

Seed-Farmer (seedfarmer) is an opensource orchestration tool that works with AWS CodeSeeder (see github or docs) and acts as an orchestration tool modeled after GitOps deployments. It has a CommandLine Interface (CLI) based in Python.

It leverages modular code deployments (see modules) leveraging manifests and deployspecs, keeping track of changes and applying changes as need / detected.

Architecture

Seed-Farmer does not create its own deployments, rather it helps to deploy YOUR modules by acting as the broker between your module code and the AWS Cloud via AWS CodeSeeder.

Steps:

1. Invoke seedfarmer CLI
2. seedfarmer reads/writes deployment metadata with AWS Systems Manager
3. seedfarmer invokes AWS IAM to create module-specific roles, attaching the proper least-privilege policies
4. seedfarmer leverages AWS CodeSeeder for remote deployment on AWS CodeBuild
5. AWS CodeSeeder prepares AWS CodeBuild
6. AWS CodeBuild via AWS CodeSeeder inspects and fetches data from AWS SecretsManager (if necessary)
7. AWS CodeBuild via AWS CodeSeeder executes the custom deployspec for the module
8. AWS CodeBuild via AWS CodeSeeder updates AWS Systems Manager with completed module metadata
9. seedfarmer updates deployment metadata in AWS Systems Manager

Getting Started

The Seed-Farmer library is available on PyPi. Install the library in a python virtual environment.

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install seed-farmer

A project is now necessary to begin create modules.