chef-automate-terraform

A Terraform plan to build a fully functional Chef Automate cluster in AWS

Prequisites

An AWS account
AWS API keys or IAM role with access to create/modify/delete EC2 and VPC resources
An SSH keypair setup in AWS and a copy of the private key on the machine running Terraform
A VPC with at least one subnet that allows instances to route to the internet
Network access to SSH from the machine running Terraform to the EC2 instances it will provision. Note: This Terraform plan assumes that the instances created will not be publiclly accessable.
A Chef Delivery or Chef Automate license file

Install Terraform from http://terraform.io
Configure your terminal with AWS credentials
- https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
From your terminal, enter the terraform directory of this repo
- Edit the main.tfvars file and input your desired settings
- Run 'terraform plan -var-file=main.tfvars' to review what Terraform will do
- Run 'terraform apply --var-file=main.tfvars' to initiate the provisioning process

You will find the Delivery user .pem key and the Chef Org validator .pem key in the directory you ran Terraform from.
The password for the user 'delivery' on the Chef Server is 'ChefDelivery2016'. You can and should change this after installation.
You will find the login information for the Automate server in the file delivery-admin-credentials located in the directory you ran Terraform from.