This Terraform code will create a single AWS ec2 instance in the specified region and upload the specified file to the /tmp folder of the new instance.
- AWS Region Name
- AWS Instance Type
- AWS Credentials (Access Key & Secret Key)
- Filename to upload
By default, Terraform will prompt for this information but you can specify it beforehand by creating a file named terraform.tfvars in the same directory with the below format and filling in the values:
aws_region = ""
instance_type = ""
instance_name = ""
aws_access_key = ""
aws_secret_key = ""
upload_filename = ""
- Install Terraform
- Instructions can be found here to install Terraform
- Clone this repository
- Navigate to directory for this cloned repository
terraform initterraform plan -out tf.out- Enter any variables you didn't specify in the
terraform.tfvarsfile
- Enter any variables you didn't specify in the
terraform apply tf.out
- This code uses the official CentOS AMI with a hardcoded AMI ID.
- As such, the default user to copy the file over is
centosper the AMI's documentation. - The ssh connection to copy the file also assumes the private ssh key to connect to this instance is at
~/.ssh/id_rsa. - Accordingly, the public key uploaded to this instance is hardcoded to
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. - The
.gitignorefile ignores theterraform.tfvarsfile so that, if specified, credentials are not committed to source control. - The security groups applied to this instance allow connections via ssh from any ip addresses. Apply with caution.
- At this time, the file to upload must come from within the working directory (i.e.
./filename) and be specified asfilenameortest.filewithout the./