EC2 deployment demo

Usage of cdk toolkit to deploy EC2 instances

Getting started

Prerequisites

• aws account
• aws cli (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html)
• aws CDK for TypeScript (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/getting_started.html)

Use the aws configure command to set up AWS CLI installation with the mandatory informations: Acces Key ID, Secret access key, AWS Region, and output format

Bootstrap AWS CDK is required before the first stack deployment in an AWS environment (Account/Region).

cdk bootstrap

Useful commands

• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk destroy destroy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template

Access to EC2 instance

Connect to instance using SSH require to use a private key. The private key is store in AWS Secret Manager. Use the below command to get the private key value:

aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id ec2-ssh-key/Ec2DemoStackKey/private --query SecretString --output text

Ansible

Private key must be save in private_key.pem file.

To check that ec2 instances are available use the below commands:

chmod 600 private_key.pem
cd ansible
ansible -i hosts -m ping all