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Setup for Digital Ocean + Nginx + Certbot + Cloudflare using Terraform

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terraform-nginx-cloudflare

Setup for Digital Ocean + Nginx + Certbot + Cloudflare using Terraform.

This will use Terraform to:

  • Create a Digital Ocean Droplet
  • Install Nginx & Certbot
  • Create a firewall on Digital Ocean
  • Setup an A record on Cloudflare to point to the droplet's IP
  • Provision an SSL certificate for the domain using Certbot

Written for Terraform v0.12.24

Installation

  1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/MarkNjunge/terraform-nginx-cloudflare.git
cd terraform-nginx-cloudflare
  1. Create a terraform.tfvars file and modify the contents.
cp terraform.tfvars.sample terraform.tfvars

  1. Modify nginx/default.conf. Change server_nameto your domain.

  2. Create an ssh key named terraform.
    It should be saved in ~/.ssh (C:\Users\username\.ssh on Windows)

ssh-keygen -t rsa
  1. Install Terraform providers and apply
terraform init

terraform apply

Requirements

Digital Ocean

Create a personal access token on Digital Ocean: LINK

Cloudflare

Create an API Token on Cloudflare: Managing API Tokens and Keys. The token needs to have permission to edit DNS in a zone.

How to find your zone id.