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Consul Democracy on AWS by FOSSonCloud is a custom AMI + open-source AWS CloudFormation template that provisions a production-ready, AWS infrastructure solution for deploying Consul Democracy v2.5.0.
Overview
Consul Democracy on AWS by FOSSonCloud is an open-source AWS CloudFormation template that offers an easy-to-install AWS infrastructure solution for quickly deploying Consul Democracy, using both AWS and Consul Democracy best practices.
Consul Democracy is the open-source citizen participation platform originally developed by the city of Madrid; it powers proposals, debates, voting and participatory budgeting for governments and civic organizations worldwide.
Automatically configured to support auto-scaling through AWS Auto Scaling Groups, this solution leverages an S3 bucket with CloudFront for user generated content between application servers. It configures SES with Easy DKIM for emails, and configures Route 53 with convenient DNS entries.
The template ensures multi-level security by incorporating AWS IAM for federated access to resources with least privilege and AWS managed keys and Secrets Manager to manage secrets for encryption of data at rest and in transit.
We support multiple availability zones using an RDS Aurora PostgreSQL cluster and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups.
An optional email address is collected as part of the CloudFormation parameters as the AdminEmail parameter. This email is used as the initial login for the Consul Democracy instance and is not shared with any third party.
Highlights
- Production-ready Consul Democracy v2.5.0 site, with search, email, and caching
- Integrated with AWS Certificate Manager for HTTPS support
- Logs in CloudWatch Logs, Remote access via Session Manager
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CloudFormation Template v2.0.1
CloudFormation Template v2.0.0
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t2.micro | $0.02 |
t3.micro | $0.02 |
r5.xlarge | $0.02 |
r5d.large | $0.02 |
r5d.8xlarge | $0.02 |
m5.16xlarge | $0.02 |
r5.12xlarge | $0.02 |
m5.2xlarge | $0.02 |
t3.large | $0.02 |
r5.4xlarge | $0.02 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour based on the EC2 instance type you run. This listing packages the open-source citizen participation software as a deployable image. Pricing scales with the compute size you choose, not by users or features. Options span several instance families: t2 and t3 for general burstable workloads, m5 and m5d for balanced compute and memory, c5 and c5d for compute-focused needs, and r5 and r5d for memory-focused needs. Within each family, sizes range from nano and micro up to metal and multi-xlarge. You select based on your capacity needs and pay only for hours used.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You pay for each hour the EC2 instance runs. The rate covers the packaged software image deployed on that instance. The unit is one instance-hour of the specific EC2 type you launch. The software itself is open source, so the charge reflects the deployment image and the compute size you select.
Hourly software charges apply only while the instance runs. A stopped instance does not accrue the hourly software fee. Note that stopped instances may still incur underlying AWS storage costs for attached volumes, which are billed separately by AWS, not by this listing.
Cost depends only on the EC2 instance type and the hours it runs. You are not billed by users, proposals, votes, or participation features. A larger instance family or size raises the hourly rate. To handle more traffic, you scale up the compute, which changes your hourly cost.
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CloudFormation Template v2.0.1
Consul Democracy on AWS by FOSSonCloud deploys a production-ready Consul Democracy instance using AWS best practices.
Consul Democracy is the open-source citizen participation platform originally developed by the city of Madrid; it powers proposals, debates, voting and participatory budgeting for governments and civic organizations worldwide.
WHAT'S DEPLOYED
- VPC with public and private subnets (or use your existing VPC)
- Application Load Balancer with ACM certificate for HTTPS
- Auto Scaling Group with EC2 instances running Consul Democracy (Rails + Puma + nginx)
- Aurora PostgreSQL cluster (multi-AZ)
- Memcached on each application instance
- DelayedJob worker processes for asynchronous tasks
- S3 bucket with CloudFront for user-uploaded media
- SES domain identity with Easy DKIM for email delivery
- Route53 DNS records
- CloudWatch Logs integration
- AWS Secrets Manager for credential storage
- IAM roles with least-privilege permissions
REQUIREMENTS
- Route 53 hosted zone for DNS
- ACM certificate for HTTPS
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
Version release notes
- Upgrade Consul Democracy to 2.5.1 (from 2.5.0) - dependency-only patch release (gem/npm bumps), no Ruby/Node/Rails version changes
- Upgrade aws-marketplace-utilities packer scripts to 1.10.3 (from 1.10.0) - picks up an EFS-utils build reliability fix (cmake/golang-go/rustup toolchain)
- Introduce versioned AMI parameter AsgAmiIdv201 (from AsgAmiIdv200)
- Fix Dockerfile missing test/integration/requirements.txt install - make test-integration had no pytest available
- Fix docker-compose.yml not passing TEST_BASE_URL/TEST_STACK_NAME through to the container, so integration test overrides were silently ignored
Additional details
Usage instructions
Run the stack, providing valid parameters. When the stack creation completes, go to the outputs of the stack and open the URL in your browser. Log in with the email address shown in AdminEmailOutput and the password stored under the 'admin_password' key in the {StackName}/instance/credentials secret in AWS Secrets Manager. To access the application servers, find the EC2 instance in the AWS console and Connect using the Session Manager option. For more detailed instructions, see the GitHub project.
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Email support offered with subscription. https://fossoncloud.com/products/consuldemocracy
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