A step-by-step guide for AWS EC2 provisioning using Terraform: remote-exec Provisioner & user data — Part 6
This guide outlines the process of using Terraform to create an EC2 instance on AWS, complete with connection, file, and remote-exec provisioners. By placing the private key file in the root directory and configuring Terraform to use this key, the setup includes defining an AWS key pair, uploading a script to the instance, and executing it remotely. This automated approach ensures efficient provisioning and configuration of the EC2 instance, facilitating tasks such as installing and starting NGINX through a simple script.
To enhance readability, this handbook is divided into chapters and split into parts. The first, part, “A step-by-step guide for AWS EC2 provisioning using Terraform: HA, ALB, VPC, and Route53 — Part 1”, and the second part “A step-by-step guide for AWS EC2 provisioning using Terraform: HA, CloudFront, WAF, and SSL Certificate — Part 2”, and “A step-by-step guide for AWS EC2 provisioning using Terraform: Cloud Cost Optimization, AWS EC2 Spot Instances — Part 3”, was covered in a separate article to keep the reading time manageable and ensure focused content. The next part or chapter will be published in the next post, upcoming in a few days, “A step-by-step guide for AWS EC2 provisioning using Terraform: VPC peering, VPN, Site-to-site Connection…
