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Geodesic Module

A geodesic module is a docker image that extends the geodesic base image and implements functions specific to that stage or account.

Usually we create geodesic modules that correspond to each AWS organization.

For example, the standard geodesic modules are:

  • root.cloudposse.org - a module which is reponsible for administering the root AWS account and provisioning all subaccounts (organizations).
  • prod.cloudposse.org - a module which is responsible for provisioning all production infrastructure including production kops clusters and backing services (E.g. rds)
  • staging.cloudposse.org - a module which is responsible for provisioning all staging resources
  • dev.cloudposse.org - a module which is responsible for provisioning a sandbox environment for developers
  • testing.cloudposse.org - a module which is responsible for provisioning the organization used for testing of infrastructure modules (E.g. testing terraform modules as part of CI/CD)