kevasync / aws-meetup-group-terraform

Configiration files for Terraform Meetup

aws-meetup-group-terraform-and-pulumi

Configiration files for Terraform Meetup as well as Pulumi typescript stack converted from TF files

Getting started

• Create an EC2 Key Pair in AWS console
• Download and set privs on ssh pem file
• Install Terraform and create first deployment
• Create AWS CLI Account
• Deploy IaaS Hosting Stack with EC2 and RDS
• Install Pulumi and deploy IaaS hosting stack

Create Key Pair:

Download and set privs on ssh pem file:

• mv ~/Downloads/aws-meetup-group-key.pem ~/.ssh/
• chmod 400 ~/.ssh/aws-meetup-group-key.pem

Create AWS CLI Account

IAM > Users > New User

• Name user
  • 
• Add to group or role with admin privs
  • 
• Configure access credenitals
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Install AWS CLI

• Mac:
  • Homebrew: brew install awscli
  • Bundled installer: curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip" unzip awscli-bundle.zip sudo ./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws
• Windows:
  • Windows: MSI Installer

Configure AWS CLI Access Locally

• aws configure
  • 
• Configure by viewing contents of ~/.aws/credentials or %UserProfile%\.aws\credentials
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Install Terraform

• Homebrew (Mac): brew install terraform
• Chocolatey (Windows): choco install terraform
• Manual download: Terraform.IO

TF Hello World file

provider "aws" {
  version = "~> 2.0"
  region  = "us-east-1"
}
resource "aws_vpc" "main" {
  cidr_block = "192.168.225.0/24"
  enable_dns_support = true
  enable_dns_hostnames = true
  tags = {
    CostCenter = "tf-helloworld"
  }
}
resource "aws_subnet" "main-subnet" {
  vpc_id     = "${aws_vpc.main.id}"
  cidr_block = "192.168.225.0/25"
  availability_zone = "us-east-1a"
  tags = {
    CostCenter = "tf-helloworld"
  }
}

Plan, Apply, Show, And Destroy

• terraform plan
• terraform apply
• terraform show
• terraform destroy

Create Pulumi Account and create Access Key

• Get Pulumi Access Token

Install Pulumi and Install AWS plugin

• Mac: brew install pulumi
• Windows
  • choco install pulumi
  • @"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://get.pulumi.com/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\.pulumi\bin"
• pulumi plugin install resource aws 1.18.0

Initialize Pulumi Stack and Deploy

• cd pulumi-iaas-hosting-stack
• pulumi stack init
  • You will need to enter access token created earlier in Pulumi portal
• Install Pulumi npm install @pulumi/aws
• pulumi up

Destroy Resrouces and Delete Stack

• pulumi destroy
• pulumi stack rm <account>/<stack>/<env> --force