A minimal, clean photo gallery for the cloud
As an avid photographer, I have a rather spontaneous tendency to share my photos with relatives & friends so they will get some idea of the what/when/where of my whereabouts; eventually satisfying their thirst for possible destination in their upcoming vacation.
I wanted to use something already existing, yet, in most cases, the price to pay for that freedom is usually hurting on many levels:
1. the real cost of the service (maintenance, downtime, availability, etc.)
2. the actual limitations of the service, including API documentation.
3. the open-ness of the service
Given these few, yet impacting variables, I decided to make my own. I started this project eating rotella. So there it was: licorice.
One last yet considerably important point: licorice should cost as little as possible to run. My target is to be able to run licorice for a year out of the free tier of my personal AWS account (excluding the domain name price) and to be installable in a few clicks (with a little help from AWS CloudFormation).
First things first, a diagram:
All of licorice relies on the following technologies and services:
licorice
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AWS CloudFormation
licorice-lambda-node:
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AWS Lambda (NodeJs + async/aws-sdk/gm/crypto)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Simple Storage Service (s3)
licorice-web-template
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Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
AWS Identity & Access Management Roles
Amazon Cognito
and works very well with Adobe Lightroom, which i use both on pc and mac.
Actually, this is not my first attempt to work with Lightroom and the cloud: lightroom sync with s3 windows macos
I'm polishing licorice so to release it; patience my friend !
So far, here's the release structure:
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README.md # this file
licorice-assets # cfn assets
licorice-lambda-node # licorice lambda code in node.js + modules (ready for lambda)
licorice.png # this lovely diagram above, much nicer than my ascii skills