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This project demonstrates two DevOps automation approaches for deploying a simple Flask-based To-Do List application that mimics a LAMP stack but uses Docker containers instead of a traditional Apache/PHP environment.

The goal is to give hands-on experience with core DevOps tools including:

Terraform: to provision infrastructure or manage Docker resources

Ansible: to configure remote hosts and deploy containers

Docker: to containerize and run the application

GitLab CI/CD: to automate testing, provisioning, and deployment pipelines

The To-Do app is built using Flask (Python) with a MySQL database and supports basic CRUD operations.

This is a 3-person collaborative project, divided into two main tracks:

🔹 Project 1: todo-terraform-docker Deploy the Flask + MySQL app entirely using Terraform’s Docker provider — no Ansible, no VM provisioning. This is ideal for fast, local development and demonstrates infrastructure-as-code at the container level.

🔹 Project 2: ansible-todo-deployer Use Ansible to install Docker and deploy the containerized app on a remote VM (can be provisioned manually or via Terraform). This approach simulates a production-like environment where a host must be configured from scratch.

Both projects use GitLab CI/CD for automated execution.

"Cloud container data analytics, statistical modeling, and machine learning on distributed databases". "A free opensource alternative to SPSS, SAS, MATLAB, PowerBI, Tableau and Alteryx". Runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS, and in the cloud via containers.