Infrastructure as Code for a Scalable Online Storefront

Added Jun 2025 3 design docs

E-commerce businesses face traffic that swings wildly between quiet weekdays and flash-sale spikes, and teams that build infrastructure by clicking through cloud consoles end up with environments nobody can reproduce or scale on demand. This project treats infrastructure as software: every server, network rule, and environment for an online storefront is defined in version-controlled code. The intern uses Terraform to provision the storefront infrastructure declaratively, so an identical environment can be created or torn down with a single command, and Ansible to configure servers consistently once they exist. Application services are containerized with Docker for portability, and a Jenkins pipeline ties everything together, automatically building and deploying the store whenever code or infrastructure definitions change. The result is a stack where scaling for a seasonal sale or recovering from a failure is a code change, not a late-night manual scramble. Along the way the intern learns the core DevOps disciplines of idempotent provisioning, configuration management, drift prevention, and pipeline automation, and finishes with a reproducible e-commerce environment that showcases exactly how modern operations teams manage production infrastructure.

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