Nginx via Terraform on Packet

This is a very basic Terraform template that will deploy Nginx on Packet baremetal.

Install Terraform

Terraform is just a single binary. Visit their download page, choose your operating system, make the binary executable, and move it into your path.

Here is an example for macOS:

curl -LO https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.25/terraform_0.12.25_darwin_amd64.zip 
unzip terraform_0.12.25_darwin_amd64.zip
chmod +x terraform 
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/ 

Download this project

To download this project, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/c0dyhi11/packet-nginx.git
cd packet-nginx

Initialize Terraform

Terraform uses modules to deploy infrastructure. In order to initialize the modules your simply run: terraform init. This should download modules into a hidden directory .terraform

Modify your variables

You will need to set three variables at a minimum and there are a lot more you may wish to modify in variables.tf

cat <<EOF >terraform.tfvars 
auth_token = "cefa5c94e8ee4577bff81d1edca93ed8" 
project_id = "42259e34-d300-48b3-b3e1-d5165cd14169" 
EOF 

Deploy Terraform template

terraform apply --auto-approve

Once this is complete you should get output similar to this:

Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

nginx_ip = 139.178.89.181

Variables

Variable Name	Type	Default Value	Description
auth_token	string	n/a	Packet API Key
project_id	string	n/a	Packet Project ID
facility	string	sjc1	Packet Facility to deploy into
plan	string	c3.medium.x86	Packet device type to deploy
operating_system	string	centos_8	The Operating system of the node
billing_cycle	string	hourly	How the node will be billed (Not usually changed)

Enjoy!