The Ordinary Experts Pixelfed Pattern is an open-source AWS CloudFormation template that offers an easy-to-install AWS infrastructure solution for quickly deploying Pixelfed, using both AWS and Pixelfed best practices.
Automatically configured to support auto-scaling through AWS Autoscaling Groups, this solution leverages an S3 bucket for user generated content between application servers. It also provisions an ElastiCache Redis cluster for cache. It configures SES with Easy DKIM for emails, and configures Route53 with convenient DNS entries.
The template ensure multi-level security by incorporating AWS IAM for federated access to resources with least privilege and AWS managed keys and Secret Manager to manage secrets for encryption of data at rest and in transit.
We support multiple availability zones using an RDS Aurora MySQL cluster and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups. However, only one instance at a time is supported.