What Is This?

A simple terraform project to create an EC2 instance with nginx and python installed. Also, generates ssh key to access the instance.

How To?

Pre-requisites

1. Create an IAM user with Administrator access here
2. Create Access key for the above user for CLI access. You will find the option under Security Credentials tab on the IAM user console.
3. Install aws cli on your machine. Steps here.
4. Run aws configure. It will prompt for the Access Key and Secret Access Key you created in Step 2.

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: [Enter your access key id here. And then press enter]
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: [Enter your corresponding secret access key here. And then press enter]
Default region name [None]: [You can keep it blank. So just press Enter]
Default output format [None]: [You can keep it blank. So just press Enter]

5. Verify your aws creds are configured by running aws iam list-users. You should at least see the admin user you created in step 1.

$ aws iam list-users
{
    "Users": [
        {
            "Path": "/",
            "UserName": "SagarM",
            "UserId": "AIDA5FTY6HTRVAX2LBERT",
            "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::905417997539:user/SagarM",
            "CreateDate": "2024-03-26T11:11:14+00:00",
            "PasswordLastUsed": "2024-04-01T04:59:30+00:00"
        }
    ]
}

6. Install Terraform's latest version from here

Create Remote State

Terraform keeps all the info about the resources in a state file. Rather than keeping it on local disk, we store it on S3 bucket. To learn more read the docs here

Run below terraform command to create remote state bucket on your AWS account.

cd remote_state; terraform init; terraform apply --auto-approve

Create Infra

Run below command to create EC2 instance. This will even output the ssh command to access the instance.

cd infra; terraform init; terraform apply --auto-approve

Report Bug

To raise issue/bug click here.

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