AWS LOADBALACER INFRASTRUCTURE CONFIGURATION WITH TERRAFORM AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT WITH ANSIBLE

Introduction

This project uses Terraform to create an AWS Loadbalancer infrastructure and Ansible to configure it to display each server's hostname.

Requirements

• Terraform
• Ansible
• AWS CLI configured with your credentials

What Main.tf does

• Imports the modules

What vpc.tf does

• Creates a VPC
• Creates a public subnet
• Creates a public route table
• Creates a public route table association
• Creates an internet gateway
• Creates a public route

What provider.tf does

• Defines the AWS provider
• Defines the AWS region

What EC2.tf does

• Creates multiple EC2 instance
• Imports the public key

What security.tf does

• Creates a security group for the EC2 instances
• Creates a security group for the load balancer

What variables.tf does

• Defines the default variables used in the project

What loadbalancer.tf does

• Creates a load balancer
• Creates a http and https load balancer listener rule

What target.tf does

• Creates a load balancer target group
• Creates a load balancer target group attachment

What subdomain.tf does

• Creates a subdomain for the load balancer
• Creates a A record for the subdomain

What ssl.tf does

• Creates a SSL certificate
• Creates a validation record for the SSL certificate
• Creates a SSL policy for the load balancer
• Validates the SSL certificate

What inventory.tf does

• Creates a host inventory file for Ansible
• Configures the Servers with Ansible

What data.tf does

• Imports the hosted zone id

What playbook.yml does

• Installs Apache
• Sets the hostname of the servers
• Sets the timezone of the server
• Configures Apache to display the hostname

How to use

• Clone this repository
• Define your variables in terraform.tfvars file
• Run terraform init to initialize the project
• Run terraform plan to see the changes that will be applied
• Run terraform apply to apply the changes