This document summarizes the validation activities performed to verify that the platform operates correctly and satisfies the project requirements.
The objective is to validate deployment automation, scalability, monitoring, networking, traffic management, and overall platform reliability.
Push a code change to GitHub.
GitHub Push
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Webhook Trigger
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Jenkins Pipeline
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Build Successful
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Deployment Successful
- Webhook triggered
- Jenkins job started
- Build completed successfully
- Docker image created
- Image pushed to Amazon ECR
- Deployment completed successfully
Deploy a new application version.
Blue Active
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Green Deployed
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Validation Successful
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Traffic Switched
- Blue service healthy
- Green service healthy
- Target groups healthy
- Traffic switched successfully
- No downtime observed
Validate deployment recovery and traffic switching behavior.
Deployment Failure
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Rollback Triggered
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Previous Version Restored
- Failure detection mechanism verified
- Rollback workflow validated
- Previous version remained available
- Traffic switching process confirmed
Verify secure traffic flow between CloudFront, Application Load Balancer, and ECS services.
- VPC configured successfully
- Public and private subnets deployed
- Application Load Balancer operational
- ECS services running in private subnets
- Target groups reporting healthy status
Verify service redundancy and fault-tolerant deployment configuration.
- Multiple service tasks configured
- Load balancer health checks enabled
- ECS health monitoring operational
- Service recovery mechanisms configured
- Desired task count maintained
The platform is configured to maintain application availability through ECS service health monitoring, task replacement, and Application Load Balancer health checks.
Verify CloudWatch metrics, dashboards, and observability capabilities.
- ECS metrics available
- CloudWatch dashboard operational
- CPU utilization monitored
- Memory utilization monitored
- Service health metrics available
Verify CloudWatch alarm configuration and incident notification workflow.
Metric Threshold Exceeded
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CloudWatch Alarm
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SNS Notification
- Alarm configuration verified
- SNS integration configured
- Notification workflow validated
CloudWatch alarms are configured to monitor critical platform metrics and trigger notifications through Amazon SNS when thresholds are exceeded.
Verify ECS Service Auto Scaling configuration.
CPU Increase
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Scaling Policy Triggered
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Additional Tasks Created
- Auto Scaling enabled
- CPU-based scaling policy configured
- Memory-based scaling policy configured
- Minimum and maximum capacity defined
- Scaling activities recorded
Verify content delivery through CloudFront.
- Distribution deployed
- Distribution enabled
- ALB configured as origin
- HTTPS delivery configured
- CloudFront domain accessible
The following capabilities were successfully validated:
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- CI/CD Automation with Jenkins
- Docker-Based Application Delivery
- Blue-Green Deployment Strategy
- Traffic Switching and Rollback
- Amazon ECS Fargate Orchestration
- Secure Networking Architecture
- High Availability Design
- CloudWatch Monitoring
- CloudWatch Alarming and SNS Notifications
- ECS Auto Scaling
- CloudFront CDN Integration
Validation confirms that the platform successfully delivers automated deployments, deployment safety, centralized monitoring, scalable infrastructure, secure networking, and reliable cloud-native application delivery on AWS. The architecture demonstrates production-grade DevOps practices using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Amazon ECS Fargate, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and related AWS services.