3-tier-app-aws-terraform

Simple 3-tier app example deployed to AWS using Terraform.

Requirements

• Terraform >= 0.11.1
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables exported.

Usage

Clone this repository and run:

Initializing Terrraform remote backend:

λ ~/3-tier-app-aws-terraform/ terraform init -backend-config=terraform.remote

Terraform plan:

λ ~/3-tier-app-aws-terraform/ terraform plan

Terraform apply:

λ ~/3-tier-app-aws-terraform/ terraform apply

After the process is completed, should then be able to connect to http://EC2_INSTANCE_IP/app1 and http://EC2_INSTANCE_IP/app2 in your browser.

References

• https://github.com/lbracken/docker-example (for the example 3-tier application)
• https://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html
• https://nickcharlton.net/posts/terraform-aws-vpc.html (provided me a quick overview of resources to be created after the VPC, like proper route association)