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Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

You're reading from  Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464910
Pages 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stephane Jourdan Stephane Jourdan
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Pierre Pomès Pierre Pomès
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Vagrant Development Environments 2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform 3. Going Further with Terraform 4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform 5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init 6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet 7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet 8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet 9. Working with Docker 10. Maintaining Docker Containers Index

Creating an Ubuntu EC2 instance with Terraform


We have previously created the requirements to launch a standard virtual machine on AWS EC2 (an SSH key pair and a security group). Let's now launch this virtual machine on EC2, using the specified SSH key pair to log into it and placed inside the security group, so (in our case) SSH is only available from a specific IP address.

Note

This example uses the t2.micro instance available for free in the AWS Free Tier.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

  • A working Terraform installation

  • An AWS provider, a SSH key pair, and a Security Group configured in Terraform (refer to the previous recipes)

  • An Internet connection

How to do it…

First, you need to find the correct AMI for your machine. An AMI is like a system disk image for AWS, and is referred to by its ID (that is: ami-df3bceb0 or ami-f2fc9d81). In the Ubuntu case, you can find the AMI you want by going to their Amazon EC2 AMI Locator page (https://cloud-images.ubuntu...

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