Steps:

Please make sure in all steps you are at Oregon region. This is our region as starters they will not walk you alone. Either options Ohio and SF.

1. First create a user in IAM board. Create a user group with full S3, RDS, IAM, Route53 and EC2 piriviliges. Then aws configure --profile <profileNama>. Keeping environment variables in a file can also be benficeial. Also see ~/.aws/credentials, also ~/.aws/config when in doubt.

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="some access key id" export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="some secret key" export AWS_REGION="us-west-2" export AWS_PROFILE="terraform-user" export AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=true export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=~/.aws/credentials

Make sure to match the right profile in main.tf/provider likewise, if terraform-user terraform-user, if master-jedi then master-jedi.

https://796742317656.signin.aws.amazon.com/console

2. Pull git clone github.com/tanerjn/terraform.git

3. Open AWS from your browser. Change region to Oregon. Go S3, create a bucket at us-west-2 region. Name bucket terraform-state. Disable ACL. Disable Public Access, disable versioning, disable encryption.

4. 3. cd test/modules/vpc && unzip secrets.zip -d ~/Downloads
   • Answer question to decrypt the folder. I slither along in a muddy space I like to sit in a nice cool place. What I am?

5. Generate key pair by ssh-keygen -m PEM, type test-terraform, add .pem extension to the private key. Move both keys to secrets dir.mv test-terraform.p*~/Downloads/secrets/. Open https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#KeyPairs, Menu rigth->Actions->Import Key Pair and paste test-terraform.pub context there. Save it.

6. Go, cd /test/terraform-site directory, do terraform init and terraform plan in order.

7. See there is no error and do, terraform apply and behold.

8. Cross fingers.

   If everything is alright, website is hosted at port 8000. Now, also try ssh to the machine ssh -i ~/Downloads/secrets/test-terraform.pem ec2-user@ec2-IP>. Check egress and ingress, i.e ping de.de, curl de.de and hopefully see the traffic.

   Also wise to check terraform state list once in a while.

   First served webpage will be a simple hello word output from EC2 instance, second is the Docker image publishing a full html page.

Bonus: Visual Studio has resource windows for Terraform and AWS. So you don't need to go to dashboard each time to check on. Note not all services are included as of 09/2022.