Companion project for the article: Terraform + Ansible: tips & tricks.
Create a DigitalOcean account (referral link) if you don't have one. Go to the API section of your DigitalOcean account, and click in the "Generate New Token" button. Save the token to use later.
Create a new SSH key:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your@email.here" -f ~/.ssh/server_rsa -q -N ""
Create a config file:
cp config.auto.tfvars.tmpl config.auto.tfvars
Edit the new config.auto.tfvars file, update the path to your new keys and put your generated token.
Show help:
make
Deploy everything:
make provision
Once all is deployed you can do note down the droplet IP (you can see the IP in the inventory file that will be created) and do:
curl http://<DROPLET_IP>
You should get the Nginx default page.
If you run make provision again, only the provision Ansible playbook should run. If you make changes in the infraestructure (Terraform files) you can apply those changes with:
make apply
Don't forget to destroy everything after doing your tests:
make destroy