Home Assignment to design and deploy a Production ready Web-Service in AWS

Prerequisites

install Ansible binaries for provisioning
install Terraform for infrastructure deployment
create AWS account (free Tier) and create an IAM Administrator user
install AWS client and register the credentials for Administrative user
register a Domain on AWS (because we are using SSL Web-Server)
generate SSL certificate on AWS
create a SSH Key to use for communication with the instances

Configuration

All configurable values are stored in terraform/variables.tf. Make sure you check these before attempting to deploy.

Execution

change in to the terraform folder and execute "terraform init" followed by "terraform apply"

Caveats encountered in my environment

Name-Server records are not updated locally. To be able to use the URL, I needed to update the Nameserver to AWS, by issuing

sudo systemd-resolve --set-dns=205.251.196.133 --interface=enp3s0

I was then able to call the Web-Page provided by "outputs.tf". Once web page confirmed, I reset it back to my Router DNS

sudo systemd-resolve --set-dns=192.168.128.1 --interface=enp3s0

Using a Bastion

make sure you use ssh-agent ssh-agent bash check if your key has already been added ssh-add -L add your SSH-Key ssh-add -k You should be able to connect to Bastion using ssh -A @ From there ssh @

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