Terraform Infrastructure for Development VMs

Basic Terraform Infrastructure for spinning up Development VMs on AWS or DigitalOcean

Requirements

To use this Terraform Infrastructure, you will need to have the following environment variables set:

• AWS_USERNAME: AWS Username
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS Access Key ID for your account
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS Secret Access Key for your account
• AWS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER: AWS Account Number
• DO_TOKEN: DigitalOcean API Token
• SSH_FINGERPRINT: SSH Fingerprint for DigitalOcean

Spinning up a development VM

Enable VM Type

To spin up a development VM, enable the type of VM you want in variables.tf:

1. AWS VM (Intel)

For an intel architecture AWS vm set the enable_aws_amd64_dev variable to true:

variable "enable_aws_amd64_dev" {
  type    = bool
  default = true
}

2. AWS VM (ARM)

For an arm architecture AWS vm set the enable_aws_arm64_dev variable to true:

variable "enable_aws_arm64_dev" {
  type    = bool
  default = true
}

3. Digital Ocean VM (Intel)

For an intel architecture AWS vm set the enable_do_instance variable to true:

variable "enable_do_instance" {
  type    = bool
  default = true
}

Applying changes

To apply the changes from your workstation, run the following commands:

make apply

Alternatively, you can commit your changes to the repository and let the github actions pipeline apply the changes for you.