IAI - AWS Infrastructure Setup

This repository contains the following:

1. Terraform scripts to setup the overall infrastructure on AWS.
2. Ansible playbook to set up individual apps.

Using Terraform

1. Create a credentials file in the terraform folder that has the same format as the credentials.example file. Add the access key id and secret key of the account you want to set up the infrastructure in to the credentials file.

2. Run terraform from within the terraform folder: terraform init, terraform plan and terraform apply.

Using Ansible

1. Update the ansible/hosts file with the IP address or host name of the newly created EC2 instance using Terraform.

2. Update the hosts property in ansible/playbook.yml to use the host you just added in the previous step.

3. Ensure that you have an SSH key pair set up to access the EC2 instance. Update the script run_playbook.sh with your private key file name after the --key-file property.

4. Execute the script run_playbook.sh to run the playbook against the EC2 instance.

Running the ansible playbook locally

To run the playbook locally against a Vagrant box, update the ansible/playbook.yml playbook to use the host default and execute the following command:

$ ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts

The default host has all the necessary parameters to connect to the Vagrant box created using the Vagrantfile in this repository.

Note: you might have to update the path to the SSH key required to connect to the Vagrant box in the ansible/hosts file.