Demo using Ansible Teraform and AWS for Cloud provisioning

Ansible playbook will initially creates an image with apache and tomcat 8. Terraform then uses this image to launch ELB and ASG in three AZ in AWS eu-east-1 region. The workflow is controlled and orchestrated through Ansible

Software requirments

Ansible and Terraform installed on the local machine and added to default path. export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/installtion.

Python requirments

boto3 boto

Configuration

Before running the playbook, you need to to make changes to a few of the configuration files.

ansible.cfg

Edit ansible.cfg to specify the location of your AWS private key file. Ensure key pair is created in the region. KeyPair used in the demo is aws-demo. Change the permission of the keypair : chmod 400 aws-demo.pem

group_vars/all

Edit group_vars/all to set the following values:

• aws_access_key: specify AWS Access Key
• aws_secret_key: specify AWS Secret Key

inventory/hosts

Edit inventory/hosts to specify a custom Python path

Terraform/terrafor.tfvars

Edit Terraform/terrafor.tfvars to set the following values:

access_key = specify AWS Access Key secret_key = specify AWS Secret Key

Run Playbook

To run the playbook, you only need to use a single command

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts ansible-terraform.yml