Terraform Sample

Prerequisites

Terraform >= v1.0.0
AWS access key and secret key with proper permissions
AWS EC2 Key-pair

How to deploy to an AWS region

Copy example.tfvars file to .auto.tfvars and update following details.

access_key="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
secret_key="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
region="ap-southeast-2"
ssh_key_name="nginx-key-pair"

Run following terraform commands to deploy to AWS.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply

If all went well you will see something like this;

Outputs:

azs = tolist([
  "ap-southeast-2a",
])
nginx_public_ip = [
  "54.253.48.63",
]
public_subnets = [
  "subnet-0abd6e0a666bc29bf",
]
security_group_id = "sg-04aa1307f9f6b974a"
security_group_name = "nginx-20210812080402834000000001"
vpc_cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"
vpc_id = "vpc-06bead6afcc389f38"

Accessing Nginx

You can use the nginx_public_ip to access the Nginx instance. Note that the installations in EC2 instance can take a minute or two.

http://54.253.48.63

Accessing resource log

Resource log is available in the following URL.

http://54.253.48.63/resource.html

Accessing search rest API

Search API is available in the following URL.

http://54.253.48.63:8080/search/<query>
http://54.253.48.63:8080/search/nginx

Know limitations

No high availability or scalability options
Communication happens over insecure http over the Internet
Instance is directly exposed to the Internet without multiple layers of security
Rest API is not proxy via the Nginx
No log management, monitoring or data retention

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