Tag: Amazon EC2

Manage sensitive variables in Amazon EC2 user data with Terraform and PowerShell

~ sourav kundu ~ 2 Comments

If you have worked with Amazon EC2 user data, you'd have noticed a shortcoming in the approach  -the inability to pass command-line arguments to the user data script at run time. Let me explain why I believe that to be a problem. User data is a capability associated with an Amazon EC2 instance as part … Continue reading Manage sensitive variables in Amazon EC2 user data with Terraform and PowerShell

Attach IAM role to Amazon EC2 instance using Terraform

~ sourav kundu ~ 9 Comments

I have a reasonable level of understanding of the relationship between AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, role, user, and group. I have also implemented the concept of assumed-role and the trusted and trusting account association. You can read more about that at -Creating IAM assume-role relationship between two AWS accounts. So, when I … Continue reading Attach IAM role to Amazon EC2 instance using Terraform

Working with Amazon EC2 user data and Terraform

~ sourav kundu ~ 5 Comments

User data is a feature that allows customization of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (virtual machine) when it is created and (if desired) with each restart after being provisioned.As we all know, Amazon EC2 instance (virtual machine) is the legacy approach to hosting applications. Last year, I attended a webinar sponsored by AWS where the presenter, … Continue reading Working with Amazon EC2 user data and Terraform