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Infrastructure Engineering using Terraform

Infrastructure as a Code

Terraform is a vendor neutral tool for provisioning infrastructures on Cloud platform, it supports almost all public cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP.

The selected cloud provider for this exercise is AWS

For this typical infrastructure, the terraform file include :

  • provider.tf : using AWS with the required version
  • terraform.tfvars: to set default parameters for the infrastructure provisioning
  • variables.tf: this include all variables required for the the resources deployment
  • main.tf: all resources to deployed can be declared in this file with reference to the variables.

Resources Deployed

  • Virtual Private Cloud(Highy avalialable AZs)
  • Public and Private Subnets
  • Internet Gateway
  • NAT gateway
  • AWS Security Group
  • Bastion host
  • Application Load Balancer
  • Target groups and listener
  • Auto Scaling Group (EC2 instances)
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS SNS

Deployment steps

  • Enable the IAM access using the AWS access and secret key, to have the priviledge accces to deploy resoucres on AWS.