Terraform AWS

## Terraform Commands

AWS Basic Compute Demo

This basic compute demo will consist of the orchestration of blank t2.micro (free tier) EC2 instances into AWS.

It is assumed that this demo is being ran from a UNIX based machine
An AWS account -Sign up here-
- AWS SSH key-pair created and private key stored locally (this is used as the SSH key placed onto each new instance by Terraform, this key is then used for SSH access after creation is complete)
This repository cloned locally (install Git here)
Terraform installed (install it here)

####Networking:

cd into {location_of_this_repo}/aws/environments/{environment_you_wish_to_build}/networking
open and edit terraform.tfvars according to your networking requirements
run command export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={your_access_key}
run command export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={your_secret_key}
run command export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION={your_preferred_region}
run command terraform get
run command terraform plan -var-file=./terraform.tfvars
run command terraform apply -state=./terraform.tfstate -var-file=./terraform.tfvars

To destroy the infrastructure you have built, run command terraform destroy -state=./terraform.tfstate -var-file=./terraform.tfvars

####Compute:

cd into {location_of_this_repo}/aws/environments/{environment_you_wish_to_build}/compute
open terraform.tfvars and enter a value for variables vpc_id and subnet_id from the networking infrastructure you have previously built, owner and ssh_key_name (the name of the key associated with your AWS account), and save
run command export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID={your_access_key}
run command export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY={your_secret_key}
run command export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION={your_preferred_region}
run command terraform get
run command terraform plan -var-file=./terraform.tfvars
run command terraform apply -state=./terraform.tfstate -var-file=./terraform.tfvars

To destroy the infrastructure you have built, run command terraform destroy -state=./terraform.tfstate -var-file=./terraform.tfvars