aws-rds-dev-db-automation

DevOps project to automate the creation of a fresh Clone from the production database with sanitized data

Setup

• Create the following DEV-DB-Creation IAM policy with the following access

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "elasticbeanstalk:*",
                "rds:*",
                "ec2:*",
                "s3:*",
                "cloudformation:*",
                "elasticloadbalancing:*",
                "autoscaling:*",
                "cloudwatch:*",
                "sns:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

• Create an EC2 DEV-DB-Creation IAM role and attach the DEV-DB-Creation policy
• If running in EC2 assign the role to the EC2 instance

NOTE: This is a suggested policy. Feel free to harden it as you feel appropriate.

Usage

Installation

npm i -g aws-rds-dev-db-automation

Generate the default configuration

The first time the program runs it will write a default configuration to ./config.json

aws-rds-dev-db-automation

Run the automation tasks

Run the program once the configuration has been properly edited. The file defaultConfig.js contains all the possible parameters.

aws-rds-dev-db-automation

How does it work?

This program runs multiple automation tasks. Each task can be enabled/disabled independently.

1- Restore the most recent snapshot of an RDS instance. The application verifies the restored instance is ready for use before finishing.

2- Change the master password of the newly created database. The application verifies the instance is ready for use before finishing.

3- Sanitized the restored database. The application runs a list of configured scripts to delete sensitive production data.

4- Delete old development databases created using the application. Only the most recent one is kept.

5- Update an environment setting in an Elastic Beanstalk environment that contains connection string details to point to the most recent restored database.