/terraform-aws-keypair

Terraform Module to create an EC2 SSH keypair on AWS and save the private key to SSM Parameter Store

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AWS EC2 Keypair

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Terraform module which creates EC2 key pair on AWS. The private key will be stored in AWS Systems Manager's Parameter Store.

Usage Example

module "key_pair" {
  source = "squareops/keypair/aws"

  environment        = "production"
  key_name           = "example-key"
  ssm_parameter_path = "production-example-key"
}

Refer this for more examples.

Retrieve Private Key

To Retrieve the Private key from SSM:

aws ssm get-parameter --region=us-east-1 --name "production-example-key" --with-decryption --output text --query Parameter.Value

Additionally, to save the private to a file:

aws ssm get-parameter --region=us-east-1 --name "production-example-key" --with-decryption --output text --query Parameter.Value > private-key.pem

IAM Permission

The required IAM permissions to create resources from this module can be found here

Requirements

Name Version
terraform >= 1.0
aws >= 4.21
tls >= 3.4

Providers

Name Version
aws >= 4.21

Modules

Name Source Version
key_pair terraform-aws-modules/key-pair/aws 2.0.0

Resources

Name Type
aws_ssm_parameter.ssm_ec2_keypair resource

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
environment Environment identifier for the key pair string "" no
key_name The name for the key pair to be generated string "" no
ssm_parameter_path The name of the ssm parameter for storing the keypair string "/example/ssm" no

Outputs

Name Description
key_pair_name The key pair name.
ssm_parameter_arn The SSM parameter ARN of key pair.

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Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/).

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