GitLab | Simple CICD Pipeline Project to Deploy AWS Infrastructure using Terraform!

Project Overview

Goal

The primary objective of this project is to deploy a ec2 instance in a secure single-tier architecture using IAC code (Terraform) through Gitlab CI pipeline.

Pre-Requisites

Before starting the deployment, ensure you have the following:

• Sign up for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier account.

• Create IAM role with EC2 and s3 full admin role access

• Get aws access key and secret key

• Gitlab Account and Repository

Folder structure

Deployment

• Create new bucket in s3 and add bucket name in backend.tf file

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
   bucket = "aws-ec2-creation-tfstate"
   region="us-east-1"
   key="terrform.tfstate"
}
  }

• Add aws access key and secret key in GitLab repository environment variable setting> CICD> variable

• Create GitLab account token from below path and add in environment variable setting > access tokens> project access tokens> add token

• Create .gitlab-ci.yml file and write pipeline code as mentioned in file

• Commit the changes to main branch

Validation

• check the aws account and verify ec2 and s3 created

• Ensure ec2 accessible from outside of aws

AWS Single Tier architecture Diagram

The complete CICD pipeline code is available in GitLab repo .