Azure Deployment

Summary of Steps

Prerequisites

1. Set up an SMTP server. When a Gov is deploying care, the Gov should provide email gateway credentials along with domains.

2. Set up a Sentry project for error management.

CARE Infrastructure Deployment

1. Create a Virtual Network.

2. Create a PostgreSQL Server. Create database and add PostGIS extension.

3. Create a S3 compatable storage (Since Azure Storage account does not support S3 API) and get credentials for the storage.

4. Create a private AKS cluster.

5. Create a VM instance as a jump server.

6. Create a VM instance as a bastion host, install VPN, and whitelist its IP in the jumpservers network security group.

7. Configure a self-hosted agent (linux) in the jumpserver for CI/CD pipelines.

8. Update configurations for each deployment in their corresponding YAML files.

9. Create the deployments using the CI/CD pipelines from Github.

Metabase Deployment

1. Create a VM instance in the same VNET as CARE.

2. Create a PostgreSQL Server. Create a database for Metabase in it.

3. Create a read-replica of CARE Database for Metabase to read data from.

4. Follow the installation steps from the official documentation.

5. Create a load balancer and expose the service.