smetroid / static-site-tf

terraform code to run a static site using cloudformation s3 and waf

Pre-requisites

1. Access to a minimum of set of AWS resources is required, else administrator access to AWS would be ideal.
2. Terraform state is local state for simplicity.
3. For this exercise I am exporting the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for a test account I have on my personal AWS account. I am sure you all have IAM roles and profiles you assume per your accounts/environments, but wanted to make a note just in case.

eg:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=""
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=""

Stack

Cloudfront, an s3 bucket, cloudwatch and WAF as the infrastructure (AWS services) used to deploy the Single Page Application.

Why?

1. Single page application, there is no need to provision subnets, networks, albs, gateways or routing tables to provide access to the application.
2. I do believe this is more cost effective, a lot less resources to provision, keeping cost down.
3. Based on AWS documentation the above resources are a minimum for a single page application.
4. It seemed easier to write the code to provision the resources and less work :).

Steps to provision, deploy and destroy the application and aws resources

1. Clone repo
   1. git clone [e-mail]:smetroid/static-site-tf.git
2. Download terraform modules and plugins
   1. terraform init
3. Provision and deploy the application
   1. terraform apply
4. Go to the CloudFront URL found in the output when terraform apply finishes eg:

Apply complete! Resources: 13 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

app_url = {
  "dev-spa" = "d6xtsfw2dnceh.cloudfront.net"
}

Steps to destroy the resources and the application

1. terraform destroy

static-site-tf