Provision AWS infrastructure using terraform and jenkins

Description

Using Jenkins pipeline to provision infrastructure. using Ansible to configure the bastion host and the application server as slave for jenkins to run on it a Node.js app that connects to RDS and ElastiCache Redis instances in private subnets

Deploying Jenkins Master

Run jenkins master as container on local machine

# build the custom image that contains ansible and docker client 
cd jenkins
docker build -t <imageName> -f jenkins_master.dockerfile .

# run the image
docker run --name <containerName> -p8080:8080 -d -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock  -v /usr/bin/terraform:/usr/bin/terraform <imageName>

Hit the jenkins master at http://localhost:8080/

Then, go to the Jenkins page and configure it as follows:

Infrastructure Pipeline

• Add AWS credentials to Jenkins

• Create a parameterized pipeline

Build the infrastructure choose apply

Configure EC2 as Jenkins Slave

Goto "Manage Nodes and Clouds" => "New Node"

Application Pipeline

Create a new pipeline for the application link

Test application

open browser and type the ALB url

Clean up

Build the pipeline a gain and choose destroy