Update to Moodle 4.4

README.md

@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 # Hosting Moodle™ on AWS
 
-### Version 2.0.1
+### Version 2.0.2
 
 ## Overview
 
-This repository provides set of CloudFormation nested templates that deploy a highly available, elastic, and scalable [Moodle™ 4.3+](https://docs.moodle.org) environment on AWS. Moodle™ offers a learning platform that provides educators, administrators and learners a single robust, secure and integrated system for personalized learning environment. 
+This repository provides set of CloudFormation nested templates that deploy a highly available, elastic, and scalable [Moodle™ 4.4](https://docs.moodle.org) environment on AWS. Moodle™ offers a learning platform that provides educators, administrators and learners a single robust, secure and integrated system for personalized learning environment. 
 
-These nested templates can be used to deploy Moodle™ on AWS using [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Introduction.html), [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html), [Auto Scaling](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/WhatIsAutoScaling.html), [Elastic Load Balancing (Application Load Balancer)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html), [Amazon Aurora](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_AuroraOverview.html), [Amazon ElastiCache](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/UserGuide/WhatIs.html), [Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html), [Amazon CloudFront](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html), [Amazon Route 53](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html), [Amazon Certificate Manager (Amazon ACM)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-overview.html)  with [AWS CloudFormation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html) in yaml format. 
+These nested templates can be used to deploy Moodle™ on AWS using [Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Introduction.html), [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html), [Auto Scaling](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/WhatIsAutoScaling.html), [Elastic Load Balancing (Application Load Balancer)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html), [Amazon Aurora](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_AuroraOverview.html), [Amazon ElastiCache](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/UserGuide/WhatIs.html), [Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/whatisefs.html), [Amazon CloudFront](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html), [Amazon Route 53](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html), [Amazon Certificate Manager (Amazon ACM)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-overview.html)  with [AWS CloudFormation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html) in YAML format. 
 
 This architecture is expansive enough to meet the needs of large institutions / organizations. Smaller organizations can choose to run a subset of the template to meet their needs. These templates can also be run individually and may be modified.
 
-This template currently uses [Moodle™ 4.3+](https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable403/moodle-latest-403.tgz) stable version downloaded directly from [download.moodle.org](https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/). Details for downloading are available in the [templates/03-pipelinehelper.yaml](templates/03-pipelinehelper.yaml) template file.
+This template currently uses [Moodle™ 4.4](https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable404/moodle-4.4.tgz) stable version downloaded directly from [download.moodle.org](https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/). Details for downloading are available in the [templates/03-pipelinehelper.yaml](templates/03-pipelinehelper.yaml) template file.
 
 ## Deployment guide
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ You can launch this CloudFormation template in different AWS Regions. Below are
 | ap-southeast-1 |AP (Singapore)| [![cloudformation-launch-stack](images/cloudformation-launch-stack.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=ap-southeast-1#/stacks/new?stackName=Moodle&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-refarch/moodle/al2023/templates/00-main.yaml) |
 | ap-southeast-2 |AP (Sydney)| [![cloudformation-launch-stack](images/cloudformation-launch-stack.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=ap-southeast-2#/stacks/new?stackName=Moodle&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-refarch/moodle/al2023/templates/00-main.yaml) |
 | ap-south-1 |India (Mumbai)| [![cloudformation-launch-stack](images/cloudformation-launch-stack.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=ap-south-1#/stacks/new?stackName=Moodle&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-refarch/moodle/al2023/templates/00-main.yaml) |
-| ca-central-1 |Canada (Central))| [![cloudformation-launch-stack](images/cloudformation-launch-stack.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=ca-central-1#/stacks/new?stackName=Moodle&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-refarch/moodle/al2023/templates/00-main.yaml) |
+| ca-central-1 |Canada (Central)| [![cloudformation-launch-stack](images/cloudformation-launch-stack.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=ca-central-1#/stacks/new?stackName=Moodle&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-refarch/moodle/al2023/templates/00-main.yaml) |
 
 ## Architecture
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ With [elastic](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html#elasti
 *Moodle™ recommends the `dirroot` be set as read only for the apache process in a clustered environment [[Reference]](https://docs.moodle.org/400/en/Server_cluster#.24CFG-.3Edirroot). You should not install plugins to a server cluster from the admin page. `Moodle™ recommends manually installing plugins on each server during planned maintenance`. To follow the infrastructure-as-code methodology, installation/upgrade of plugins can be managed using AWS CodePipeline scripts. See the `.pipeline` folder inside your AWS CodeCommit Moodle™ repository.
 
 ### AWS CodePipeline
-This CloudFormation templates use AWS Services to create a CI/CD pipeline to help manage your Moodle™ environment. AWS CodeCommit will host a git repository for your Moodle™ environment. It initially pulls the source from [download.moodle.org.](https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable403/moodle-4.0.3.tgz). It also adds files required to automate the deployment pipeline. You can explore these files under the `.pipeline` folder.
+This CloudFormation templates use AWS Services to create a CI/CD pipeline to help manage your Moodle™ environment. AWS CodeCommit will host a git repository for your Moodle™ environment. It initially pulls the source from [download.moodle.org.](https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable404/moodle-4.4.tgz). It also adds files required to automate the deployment pipeline. You can explore these files under the `.pipeline` folder.
 This template also creates an AWS CodePipeline configuration that build artifacts to deploy on EC2 with autoscaling groups using AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy. It can optionally support a BLUE_GREEN deployment.
 
 *You can customize the overall pipeline for your Moodle™ setup.*

templates/00-main.yaml

@@ -660,6 +660,10 @@ Parameters:
     Description: Email address for notification
     Type: String
     Default: [email protected]
+  MoodleDirectDownloadURL:
+    Default: "https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable404/moodle-4.4.tgz"
+    Description: Specifies the TGZ Moodle direct download URL
+    Type: String
 
 Conditions:
   DeployWithoutSessionCache: 
@@ -947,6 +951,8 @@ Resources:
           !Ref WebAsgMax
         WebAsgMin: 
           !Ref WebAsgMin
+        MoodleDirectDownloadURL:
+          !Ref MoodleDirectDownloadURL
       TemplateURL: !Sub '${DeploymentLocation}/03-pipelinehelper.yaml'
 
   sessioncache:

templates/03-pipelinehelper.yaml

@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ Parameters:
     Default: 2
     Description: Specifies the minimum number of EC2 instances in the Web Autoscaling Group.
     Type: String
+  MoodleDirectDownloadURL:
+    Default: "https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable404/moodle-4.4.tgz"
+    Description: Specifies the TGZ Moodle direct download URL
+    Type: String
 
 Conditions:
   NumberOfSubnets1:
@@ -533,7 +537,7 @@ Resources:
                     mkdir /tmp/moodle/.pipeline
 
                     # Get Latest Moodle stable version
-                    wget -O /tmp/moodle.tgz https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable403/moodle-latest-403.tgz
+                    wget -O /tmp/moodle.tgz ${MoodleDirectDownloadURL}
                     tar -xvzf /tmp/moodle.tgz --strip-components=1 -C /tmp/moodle/
                     wget -O /tmp/moodle/lib/aws.phar https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/download/aws.phar
                     cd /tmp/moodle

templates/04-web.yaml

@@ -333,12 +333,43 @@ Resources:
       AWS::CloudFormation::Init:
         configSets:
           deploy_webserver:
-            - install_logs
+            - install_packages
+            - install_cloudwatchlogs
             - install_codedeploy
             - install_webserver
-            - start_webserver
+            - start_services
             - add_crontab
-        install_logs:
+        install_packages:
+          packages:
+            yum:
+              amazon-cloudwatch-agent: []
+              ruby3.2: []
+              httpd: []
+              php8.1: []
+              php8.1-gd: []
+              php8.1-soap: []
+              php8.1-intl: []
+              php8.1-mbstring: []
+              php8.1-xml: []
+              php8.1-opcache: []
+              php8.1-fpm: []
+              php8.1-pgsql: []
+              php8.1-mysqlnd: []
+              cronie: []
+              php8.1-devel: []
+              php-pear: []
+              libzip: []
+              libzip-devel: []
+              libsodium-devel: []
+              libzstd-devel: []
+              redis6-devel: []
+              lz4-devel: []
+              libmemcached-awesome-tools: []
+              libmemcached-awesome-devel: []
+              zlib-devel: []
+              cyrus-sasl-devel: []
+              libevent-devel: []
+        install_cloudwatchlogs:
           files:
             /etc/awslogs/awslogs.conf:
               content: !Sub |
@@ -393,35 +424,17 @@ Resources:
               owner: root
               group: root
           commands:
-            01_create_state_directory:
+            create_state_directory:
               command: mkdir -p /var/awslogs/state
-            02_install_cloudwatch_agent:
-              command: dnf install -y amazon-cloudwatch-agent
-        install_aws_ini:
-          commands:
-            install_aws_ini:
-              command: ./download_aws_ini.sh
-              cwd: /tmp
-              ignoreErrors: true
         install_codedeploy:
           files:
-            /tmp/install_codedeploy.sh:
-              content:
-                !Sub |
-                  #!/bin/bash -xe
-                  dnf install -y ruby
-                  cd /home/ec2-user
-                  wget https://aws-codedeploy-${AWS::Region}.s3.${AWS::Region}.amazonaws.com/latest/install
-                  chmod +x ./install
-                  ./install auto
-              mode: 000500
-              owner: root
-              group: root
+            /home/ec2-user/install:
+              source: !Join ["", ["https://aws-codedeploy-", !Ref "AWS::Region", ".s3.", !Ref "AWS::Region", ".amazonaws.com/latest/install" ] ]
+              mode: "000755"
           commands:
             install_codedeploy:
-              command: ./install_codedeploy.sh
-              cwd: /tmp
-              ignoreErrors: false              
+              command: "./install auto"
+              cwd: "/home/ec2-user/"
         install_webserver:
           files:
             /tmp/status.txt:
@@ -433,20 +446,12 @@ Resources:
             /tmp/create_site_conf.sh:
               content: !Sub |
                 #!/bin/bash -xe
-                dnf install -y php8.1 php-gd php-soap php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-opcache php-fpm php-pgsql php-mysqlnd
-
-                # Enable crontab on Amazon Linux 2023
-                dnf install -y cronie
-                systemctl enable crond
-                systemctl start crond
 
                 # Below to be able to compile zip.so for the PHP Zip library that's not in the available packages...
-                dnf install -y php8.1-devel php-pear libzip libzip-devel
                 pecl install zip
                 echo "extension=zip.so;" > /etc/php.d/50-zip.ini
 
                 # Install Sodium
-                dnf install -y libsodium-devel
                 pecl install -f libsodium
                 echo "extension=sodium.so;" > /etc/php.d/50-sodium.ini
 
@@ -457,12 +462,10 @@ Resources:
                 echo 'extension=igbinary.so' > /etc/php.d/30-igbinary.ini
                 /usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install msgpack
                 echo 'extension=msgpack.so' > /etc/php.d/30-msgpack.ini
-                dnf install -q -y libzstd-devel
                 /usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install zstd
                 echo 'extension=zstd.so' > /etc/php.d/40-zstd.ini
                 /usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install --configureoptions 'enable-lzf-better-compression="no"' lzf
                 echo 'extension=lzf.so' > /etc/php.d/40-lzf.ini
-                dnf install -q -y redis6-devel lz4-devel
                 /usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install --configureoptions 'enable-redis-igbinary="yes" enable-redis-lzf="yes" enable-redis-zstd="yes" enable-redis-msgpack="yes" enable-redis-lz4="yes" with-liblz4="yes"' redis
                 echo 'extension=redis.so' > /etc/php.d/41-redis.ini
 
@@ -509,8 +512,6 @@ Resources:
                 #mv amazon-elasticache-cluster-client.so /usr/lib64/php/modules/
                 #echo 'extension=amazon-elasticache-cluster-client.so;' > /etc/php.d/50-elasticache.ini
                 # Install Memcached client - note that ElastiCache client is failing on AL2023
-                dnf install libmemcached libmemcached-devel -y -q
-                dnf install -y zlib-devel cyrus-sasl-devel libevent-devel
                 /usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install --configureoptions 'enable-memcached-igbinary="yes" enable-memcached-msgpack="yes" enable-memcached-json="yes" enable-memcached-protocol="yes" enable-memcached-sasl="yes" enable-memcached-session="yes"' memcached
                 echo 'extension=memcached.so' > /etc/php.d/41-memcached.ini
 
@@ -550,13 +551,15 @@ Resources:
             create_site_conf:
               command: ./create_site_conf.sh
               cwd: /tmp
-              ignoreErrors: false
-        start_webserver:
+        start_services:
           services:
             sysvinit:
               httpd:
                 enabled: true
                 ensureRunning: true
+              crond:
+                enabled: true
+                ensureRunning: true
         add_crontab:
           files:
             /tmp/add_crontab.sh:
@@ -570,7 +573,6 @@ Resources:
             add_crontab:
               command: ./add_crontab.sh
               cwd: /tmp
-              ignoreErrors: false
     Properties:
       LaunchTemplateData:
         BlockDeviceMappings: