I think it’s time to get a conversation flowing on how best to approach this, and reach a re-usable solution for posterity.
Scenario
Provision and continuously deploy to an AWS Auto Scaling group, with a decoupled RDS database. Programmatically, with Trellis as the foundation.
I’m about to jump in on this for the rest of the day and will report my findings, but I don’t think I’m alone in wanting to do this. Let’s do it!