Use Terraform to build a CodeBuild project that runs terraform as a build service

This little repo illustrates how to build a CodeBuild project with terraform and run terraform inside of this project to build infrastructure from another repo. This other repo builds a simple ec2 instance.

Config

Before running this terraform template add the following terraform config file.

Create a settings file terraform.auto.tfvars with the following:

echo <<< EOL
aws_access_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
aws_secret_key = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
aws_region = "us-east-1"
public_key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc....9wrf+M7Q== my@laptop.local"
vpc_id = "vpc-00000000x00x0xxx0"
terraform_version = "0.9.9"
s3_bucket = "your-s3-bucket-terraform-state"
debug = "true"
EOL >> terraform.auto.tfvars;

terraform apply

After you're done creating the above file and adding your aws access key, secret and your ssh public key, run the following:

terraform init
terraform plan
echo yes | terraform apply

To remove what you built run:

echo yes | terraform destroy

The above terraform apply statement will create your CodeBuild project. After creating your project in AWS you should find your CodeBase project here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/codesuite/codebuild/projects?region=us-east-1 (Change your region in this URL to what you set your aws_region variable in your tfvars file to.)

This bit is manual in AWS Console

Your project in CodeBuild will look something like the image below:

Select your project and click Start Build:

Select Advanced build overrides:

Unfold Additional configuration and edit any of the environment variables. Set the DESTROY variable to true if you would like to run a build cycle that destroys your infrastructure.

Press Start Build.

And Bob's your uncle

You're done and have fun!