Terraform-AWS-Example

This is an example app deployed using terraform.

Pre-requisites for deploying from local machine

• Install terraform locally. (Download)
• Create an AWS account. (Create An AWS account)
• Setup authentication to your AWS account via one of the methods described here
  • Tip: An easy way to do this is by:

    export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=(your access key id)
    export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=(your secret access key)
    export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=(your aws region)

Instructions for deploying from local machine

1. Clone this repo & navigate to it's root directory
2. Initialize terraform:

   terraform init

3. (Optional) See what changes terraform will make:

   terraform plan 

4. Apply changes:

   terraform apply

   Note: This will use the default variable, you can use environment specific variables with:

5. Once the above command completes it will print something like:

   Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.
   
   Outputs:
   
   http_endpoint = http://<ip>:<port>/
   

   And if you navigate to your EC2 instances page you'll see a new instance starting.
6. You can verify that the web server is working by running the following command:

   curl <http_endpoint>

   Replacing <http_endpoint> with the output of http_endpoint in the output above. Note: It may take a little while before the web server becomes available
7. Once complete you can destroy the created resources with:

   terraform destroy