Bud Siddhisena is a platform engineer at TopstepTrader with over 22 years of experience in startups, focused on enhancing functionality and UX. He is developing a solution to automate the development and testing environment for feature branches, utilizing Docker, Terraform, and ECS. The project aims to streamline the QA testing lifecycle while isolating resources and simplifying infrastructure management.

1. Bud Siddhisena
E: bud@topsteptrader.com , bud@geekaholic.org
L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/budsiddhisena
GH: https://github.com/geekaholic
BL: http://www.geekaholic.org
Platform Engineer, TopStepTrader - Funding traders to trade safely
without risking their own capital!
Enjoys working on ideas with potential for positive change.
Encouraged to think of functionality in a deeper realm of UX. 22+ yrs
of experience at many startups. Ready to contribute to any aspect of
product life-cycle and willing to learn what is needed to accomplish it.

2. Creating JIT QA Environments

3. What we’re trying to solve...
“Provide on demand infrastructure to parallelly test
different feature branches while isolating resources
and automating redeploys in order to enable
develop-test(-develop) lifecycle”

4. High-level solution

5. Our solution

6. Grand tour ...
Visit CodeBuild Project

7. Enter branch name

8. Watch the pipeline

9. Access QA instance

10. Deployed to ECS

11. Finally destroy ...

12. Key building blocks (i.e stack)
● Make App
configurable via
environment
variables
● Dockerize App
● Local testing via
docker-compose
● IaC Build / Pipeline
● IaC ECS Cluster +
Traefik
● IaC of creation and
deletion of QA ECS
container instances
● Terraform
workspaces +
remote state
● ECR build script,
configurable via
docker build args.
● ECS task definition
with CPU/RAM
consideration
● ECS service
definition
● Dynamic config via
docker labels
● Handles routing
http/https requests
● Powerful
middleware if
needed

13. Questions & Keep in
touch
E: bud@topsteptrader.com , bud@geekaholic.org
L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/budsiddhisena
GH: https://github.com/geekaholic
BL: http://www.geekaholic.org