mexez / P-xix

Web App deployment using Iac-Terraform

Web App deployment using Iac-Terraform

install graphviz

sudo apt install graphviz

use the command below to generate dependency graph

• terraform graph -type=plan | dot -Tpng > graph.png
• terraform graph | dot -Tpng > graph.png

Read More abot terrafrom graph

https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/graph.html

Action Plan for the project

• Build images using packer

• confirm the AMIs in the console

• update terrafrom script with new ami IDs generated from packer build

• create terraform cloud account and backend

• run terraform script

• update ansible script with values from teraform output

  • RDS endpoints for wordpress and tooling
  • Database name, password and username for wordpress and tooling
  • Access point ID for wordpress and tooling
  • Internal load balancee DNS for nginx reverse proxy

• run ansible script

• check the website

Draw back in the scripts

• Direct hardcoding of values

• Inputting credentials directly in the script

• Useful links for windows users https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_keymanagement https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse https://medium.com/risan/upgrade-your-ssh-key-to-ed25519-c6e8d60d3c54