Film Ratings Terraform

This repo has the terraform definitions to set up an AWS cluster for the Film Ratings app from my blog

Prerequisites

Install Terraform. This repo as been tested on version v0.12.2

Set up an AWS account and add a new IAM user with admin privilege. Generate a new key pair for that user called film_ratings_key_pair. Copy the film_ratings_key_pair.pem to your ~/.ssh directory and set the permissions like so: chmod 400 ~/.ssh/film_ratings_key_pair.pem.

Initialise Terraform

Change directory to the project directory you cloned this to. Then run:

terraform init

Setup required Environment vars

These Terraform resources require the following variables to be typed in on every run and will prompt for them:

aws_access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key

If you tire of typing these in you can set the following environment variables to the appropriate values:

export TF_VAR_aws_access_key_id=xxxxxxxx
export TF_VAR_aws_secret_access_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Check what will be created

To check what will be created using these Terraform resources, run:

terrform plan
...

To apply the changes to AWS

To apply the changes to your AWS account:

terraform apply
...

To destroy resources in AWS

To destroy the resources in your AWS account:

terraform destroy

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