tf-nginx-module

TF skills map - 200 Terrafrom sample repo - create code that can be used as module

Purpose

This repository contains the minimal code for the Terraform v.0.12 module that launches an AWS EC2 instance with provisioned Nginx web server.

To learn more about the mentioned above tools and technologies - please check section Technologies near the end of the README

Requirements

This repo assumes general knowledge about Terraform for AWS, if not, please get yourself accustomed first by going through getting started guide . Please also have your AWS credentials prepared in some way, preferably environment variables. See in details here : Section - Keeping Secrets

Description

A Terraform Module to create 0 or more AWS instances with Nginx web server provisioned on each of them.

Dependencies

Module depends on AWS Provider

Inputs

ami string - Amazon EC2 AMI id
vpc_security_group_id string - Security Group that should be attached to instance on provision
subnet_id string - Amazon subnet_id where instance should be launched
instance_type string - AWS type of the instance , for example t2.micro , t3.small and etc.

Optional Inputs

This variable has a default value and doesn't have to be set to use this module. You still may set it to override the default value.

max_web_servers string - Number of servers to deploy, default value is 3

Outputs

public_dns list - array of all DNS names associated with launched instances
public_ips list - array of all instances public IPs

Resources

Module creates 1 aws_key_pair with name tf200-nginxweb-key
Module CAN create max_web_servers instances of aws_instance with name nginxweb.

Note - in case this parameter is set to 0 (zero) no instances going to be launched at all, still, the SSH key_pair going to be created.

Example usage

For the example of usage see the README.md in the examples folder.

Technologies

To download the content of this repository you will need git command-line tools(recommended) or Git UI Client. To install official command-line Git tools please find here instructions for various operating systems.
For managing infrastructure we using Terraform - open-source infrastructure as a code software tool created by HashiCorp. It enables users to define and provision a data center infrastructure using a high-level configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON. More you encouraged to learn here.
This project for virtualization relies on AWS EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2 for short) - a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. You can read in details and create a free try-out account if you don't have one here : Amazon EC2 main page

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