README.md

AWS user-data with Terraform

1. Download and Install Terraform
2. Upload your public ssh key via EC2 console for your account and region (eu-central-1 default) and use the corresponding Key pair name value in the console for key_name value in variable.tfwhen performing terraform plan -out "run.plan".
3. please export the following - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<<your access key>>" && export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<<your secret access key>>" && export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="eu-central-1".

You can generate new ones from your EC2 console via the url for your <<account_user>> - https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=eu-central-1#/users/<<account_user>>?section=security_credentials

4. Please add ingress allowance rule for port 22 over TCP in the default region VPC for remote-exe via ssh agent run in the project to target server - from the ec2 console for the region - eu-central-1
5. git clone https://github.com/dwaiba/aws-terraform && cd aws-terraform && terraform init && terraform plan -out "run.plan" && terraform apply "run.plan".

Post provisioning Automatic curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data|sudo sh - via terraform remote-exec executes prep-rhel75.txt shell-script file contents of this repo available as user-data, post provisioning. Various type besides shell-script including direct cloud-init commands may be passed as multipart as part of the user-data via terraform remote-exec.

6. To destroy terraform destroy