terraform adventures

Provision a fully set-up Wordpress blog with database and web server on AWS EC2 instances using Terraform

INSTRUCTIONS:

Download the files in this repository to a working folder locally.

To start the servers you will need to make the following changes:

• Change the details marked in the comments in the following files:

      - wp-server.tf
      - sql-server.tf
      - secgroups.tf
      - scripts/add-wp.yaml - change the following value in line 48 to your secret API key YOUR_KEY_ID_GOES_HERE
      - scripts/add-wp.yaml - change the following value in line 49 to your secret API key YOUR_SECRET_KEY_GOES_HERE
      - scripts/add-wp.yaml - change the following value in line 53 to your server name that you gave in the tags of sql-server.tf "Values=Isti_MySQL"
  

• Copy your private key (.pem format) into the folder

• Open a terminal, install terraform if not yet present

• Navigate into the folder containing the .tf files and type the following:

  To initiate Terraform:
  
      - terraform init
  
  To validate your configuration files:
  
      - terraform validate
  
  To apply changes and provision the servers:
  
      - terraform apply
  

You can check the server status on your AWS EC2 dashboard. The wordpress site should be available when the server configuration is finished.

IMPORTANT: HTTPS is not available in this version, so make sure to open your blog using a http:// address.

Enjoy!

Authors: https://github.com/WRicsi https://github.com/csotiistvan