In this project, I used Terraform to provision an EC2 instance and used Ansible to configure it by installing Apache web server and coping my static website to it.
install Ansible
install Terraform
AWS Account -- with access key & secret access key.
1- create new directory
mkdir project_1 && cd project_12- copy create_ec2_instance.tf file to your directory
3- add access-key and secret key to the file. -- access key and secret access key shouldn't be as plain text in the code but it's done for simplicity.
4- open the terminal and navigate to the directory and initiate teraform by
terraform init5- create a key-pair using
ssh-keygen -f myblog-key6- provision the server with
terraform apply- note : we created a new key-pair and added the public key to the ec2 instance and we will use the private key to connect to the server.
7- check the connection using
ssh -i "myblog-key" ubuntu@server-namewhere myblog-key is the private key which would exist in > ~/.ssh/myblog-key
- Now, we have our ec2 instance created and ssh, HTTP, HTTPS ports open. Next, we will configure our web server with ansible.
8- create new directory for ansible
mkdir ansible_configure && cd ansible_configure9- add inventory.txt file into the directory
10- in the inventory.txt file, modify the ansible-host= {ip}>> with your instance IP and ansible-user with your server user also specify the location of your private key.
11- all apache-install.yml to your directory
12- create a folder named my-website and add your website files to it.
13- run the ansible playbook ausing
ansible-playbook apache-install.yml -i inventory.txt14- Now, you can paste your instance IP into the web browser and enjoy your website ONLINE!