wamwangi-mathenge/AWS-Infrastructure-Lab

Provisioning of AWS Infrastructure using Terraform

AWS-Terraform-Infrastructure

Overview

This repository contains Terraform scripts to provision and manage infrastructure on AWS.

Description

The scripts in this repository automate the deployment of a scalable and highly available web application architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The infrastructure includes:

• Network Setup: Creates a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), subnets in different availability zones, and associates them with a custom route table and an internet gateway for internet access.

• Security Configuration: Establishes security groups controlling inbound and outbound traffic to EC2 instances.

• Instance Configuration: Sets up launch configurations for EC2 instances running an Apache web server and generates an HTML page displaying instance metadata.

• Auto Scaling and Load Balancing: Implements an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) for distributing traffic among instances.

Prerequisites

• Install Terraform on your local machine. (Terraform Installation Guide)
• Configure AWS credentials with appropriate permissions. (AWS Configuration Guide)

Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/lawrencemuema/AWS-Terraform-Infrastructure.git
   cd AWS-Terraform-Infrastructure/

2. Initialize Terraform and apply the configuration:

   terraform init
   terraform apply

Cleanup

To avoid incurring charges, ensure to destroy the resources after use:

terraform destroy