Terraform-ec2-vpc

This Repo contains Terraform configuration files to launch an EC2 instance in a virtual private cloud on AWS

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Getting Started

Requirements

For the deployment to be succesfull, you need to do the following

• Create an AWS account. if you don't have an account. create one here
• Create an IAM user with credentilas and enable programmatic access.
• Install terraform on your host machine.

Getting Started

You need to ensure that all variables specific to your aws account such as AWS region are declared in vars.tf file as shown below

  variable "AWS_REGION" {
    default = "us-east-1"
  }
  variable "AMIS" {
    type = "map"
    default = {
      us-east-1 = "ami-07917569e2c4a2b6a"
      us-west-2 = "ami-03715f92274307130"
      eu-west-1 = "ami-0f9036df5dbe8d6ac"
    }
  }

Create ssh keys to login to the remote instance

ssh-keygen -f mykeys

This will create ssh keys inside the current directory Initialize terraform in the project repo

terraform init 

Run the config files

terraform apply 

Running the above commands should result in

console result

ec2 instance deployed on aws

VPC with name main created

To terminate the instance and VPC environment

terraform destroy