To use Packer to generate a custom AWS EC2 Machine Image (AMI), which is pre-configured via Ansible to install and run apache2, and is then consumed by Terraform to provision immutable EC2 instances as web servers.
- Ansible
- Packer
- Terraform
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├── README.md
├── ansible
│ ├── files
│ │ ├── apache2.conf.j2
│ │ └── index.html.j2
│ ├── playbook.yml
│ └── vars
│ └── default.yml
├── packer
│ ├── builder.pkr.hcl
│ ├── sources.pkr.hcl
│ └── variables.pkr.hcl
└── terraform- Create a free tier AWS account.
- Create an IAM user with programmable access. Copy the Access Key ID and Secret.
- Run
aws configurevia the AWS CLI and paste the Access Key ID and Secret.
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/fiifikrampah/InfraDeploy - Spin up a docker container using the DockerHub image:
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd)/InfraDeploy:/home fiifikrampah/aws_infra_setup - Alternatively, you can build the image locally and spin up a container with that image:
docker build -t <tag> . && docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/home <image>
A Jenkins pipeline project can be configured to run the steps of the Jenkinsfile to provision the AWS infrastructure. Requried Plugins:
- SSH Agent
- Docker
- Docker Commons Plugin
- Docker pipeline
- SSH Credentials plugin
- Git plugin
Additionally, include a git private key, AWS ACCESS ID, and AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY as Jenkins credentials.