This is a deployment plan to a public cloud production environment.
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An AWS account and an IAM user with permissions to create AWS resources
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Terraform v0.11.7
- provider.aws v1.27.0
- provider.template v1.0.0
- provider.tls v1.1.0
NOTE - You can either export the IAM credentials as below or use an IAM Role if running from an EC2 instance
Export IAM credentials as environment variables unless you are using AWS roles
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"
Build the webserver docker images
$ cd ecs-cluster/webserver
$ docker build -t webserver .
Build the appserver docker images
$ cd ecs-cluster/appserver
$ docker build -t helloworld .
Create Repositories in AWS
$ aws ecr create-repository --repository-name webserver
$ aws ecr create-repository --repository-name helloworld
Push the docker images to ECR (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/docker-push-ecr-image.html)
Update the variables.tf file with desired values including the image URLS
Execute the terraform script
$ terraform apply
You can access the web application using webserver_alb_dns output at the end
Outputs:
webserver_alb_dns = tf-ecs-task-alb-420573605.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
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