🖼️Overview

Hi Guys, my name is Vasudeva Vempati and Iam a Cloud Learner, in this blog you can create a mutli stage environment infrastructure using Terraform which consists of S3 buckets, Dynamo DB Tables and EC2 Instances. This infrastructure is provisioned by Terraform which is connected to AWS using AWS CLI from VScode editor. This is a beginner friendly project to deploy an infrasture on AWS who are learning Terraform (or going to learn Terraform) which has simple AWS and Terraform concepts. This is a simple version of multi enviroment set-up which is used in industry using Terraform and managed using tools like Ansible.

🏡Architecture

The Architecture has 3 Stages namely Development, Staging and Production where each enviroment has a S3 Bucket, Dynamo DB Table and 1:1:3 (t2.micro, t2.medium, t2.large) Servers respective to the enviroment. They all are in the same VPC with S3 bucaket and Dynamo DB table in the private subnet and servers in the public subnet.

Plan of Execution

🖥️Local Setup

VS Code

We are going to use VS Code Editor for this project. You can download it from below link. Install Hashicorp Terraform extension with verifies blue tick on your local computer from the official provider and set-up the process.

VS Code : https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Terraform Installation

Install Terraform from the link below here and finish the setting things up.

Link : https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install

AWS CLI

Install AWS CLI from the official AWS provider with latest version for your system

AWS CLI : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

🚨 IAM secret key

I hope you have installed all the software and tools, now it's time to open the AWS console. please head over to IAM service on the AWS Console.

Create a New USER
- please click on the user tab in the left corner. now click on the add user button on the top right corner and give the name to the user. now you need to attach the Policy for the user. actually, we should follow the Principle of least privilege but we need to use many services to here you can give AdministratorAccess. but it is not at all advisable to give AdministratorAccess or you can follow the above list of services part and attach the policy accordingly. now click on the next button. and click on the Create User button.

🔐Create Access Key and Secret Access Key

After creating your user with required permissions you have to connect to AWS CLI using certain credentials where Access key and Secret Access key comes in hand which acts as your lock and key pair to enter into your account. You can create an Access key and download it for the future use when logging back or create a new key.

💻Configure AWS-CLI

Now open the terminal on your system and type aws configure which will prompt you with credentials that you have created in the before step. Enter your your Acess key ID and secret key id. please enter what we have just created. furthermore**,** it will ask output format JSON default region us-east-1 . you can enter the region where you want to deploy your app. Follow the below image to get more ideas.