What do we call our rendering apps?

[jamesgorrie]

Currently we have 1 app to rule them all. We are in the process of trying to split these out to avoid a single point of failure.

There are a few name we have in our deployment are:

• frontend-cfn - the CloudFront for our 1 app
• rendering - the name for the artefact deployed to S3 and then via Riff Raff to EC2
• DotcomRendering-{env}.template.json - the CloudFormation template name
• ${stack}-${stage}-${app}-ELB the name of the load balancer that fronts this app (limit 32 characters)

In this PR we suggest the following name pattern:

• {app}-cfn - for the cloudfront deployment
• {app} - for the artefact deployment
• DotcomRendering-{app}-{env}.template.json for the CloudFormation template name
• ${stack}-${stage}-${app}-ELB - the load balancer name

The example for render-front would be:

• render-front-cfn - for the cloudfront deployment
• render-front - for the artefact deployment
• DotcomRendering-render-front-CODE.template.json for the CloudFormation template name
• frontend-CODE-render-front-ELB - the load balancer name

This seems to fit quite nicely, and it is almost the same as what we have for other naming conventions in the code which also take rendering target AKA web | apps into account e.g. render.article.web which is quite nice.

If we want to stick to this convention completely, all would work well, except for the fact that the 32 character limit on the ELBs (which also apply to ALBs, so isn't solved by updating 😞) would catch us e.g.

• frontend-CODE-render-front-web-ELB
• frontend-CODE-render-article-web-ELB

As this feels like a time to try and get some naming right I have opened up this discussion to see what people or if they have some suggestion around how we might scale this given we know we will be adding more apps to the stack.

[jamesgorrie]

Could we keep the render-{thing}-{renderingTarget} but rename the ELBs to something shorter, what could that be?

[jamesgorrie]

Could we remove the frontend-{env}- prefix given that tags should solve this?

Cons

• It does make scanning in the console a little harder
• It breaks with frontend's naming conventions

[jamesgorrie]

Could we remove the render bit and have the -{renderTarget} imply that e.g.

• 🟢 frontend-CODE-article-web-ELB
• 🟢 frontend-CODE-front-web-ELB
• 🟢 frontend-CODE-article-apps-ELB
• 🔴 frontend-CODE-interactive-apps-ELB (34)

[jamesgorrie]

Removing the -ELB should help with this - then this might be a candidate?