cloudmart-lightsail-deployment

Overview

CloudMart is a containerized GenAI shopping assistant deployed to AWS Lightsail Container Service. It exposes a public endpoint for a conversational AI agent that handles customer queries about hours, promotions, and product info in real time. The repository documents the deployment as a governed delivery rather than only a technical walkthrough. The container image and application code were provided by a K21Academy lab environment. The work captured in the repository is the project management layer that would sit around a real-world deployment, including a charter, risk log, RACI, quality gate, and cost governance. The architecture routes a browser through AWS Lightsail for SSL termination and load balancing to a CloudMart container running a Flask app on port 5001, then to an OpenRouter LLM for model routing before returning a response. Supporting governance includes environment-variable-based secrets, least-privilege IAM, a UAT quality gate, and cost tracking against AWS Free Tier limits. The project was run against a standard delivery checklist and includes deliverables such as a project charter, RAID log, RACI matrix, deployment runbook, incident runbook, UAT/test evidence, and cost and decommission log. It was built on a hands-on lab from K21Academy, guided by Atul Kumar.