Tag: Terraform

A detailed guide to securely integrating Amazon Managed Grafana with Terraform

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Over the last couple of months, I worked extensively on Amazon Managed Grafana to create dashboards for observability. In the course of automating the deployment using Terraform and a CI-CD system, I learned about a few challenges and identified solutions. I'm sharing my learnings in this note so that you do not make the same … Continue reading A detailed guide to securely integrating Amazon Managed Grafana with Terraform

Create an Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard using Terraform and Azure Pipelines

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Recently I came across a use case where I was required to create Grafana dashboards using the Terraform Grafana provider. Although it did not sound too complex, it soon became once I started automating the process using Azure Pipelines. In this note, I documented the challenge and the solution. Before diving deeper, an Amazon Managed … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard using Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using Terraform

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In this note, I describe the steps to provision a new Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using the AWS Terraform provider. Grafana is an open-source observability tool to visualize data. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. Per AWS-Docs, Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed and secure … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace using Terraform

Add an application load balancer to AWS EC2 using Terraform

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A highly available application has higher chances of attracting customers because they are assured of consistency in service. Load balancing is a cost-effective way to increase an application's availability. In this note, I describe the steps to add an application load balancer to three EC2 instances hosted in three different availability zones in a region … Continue reading Add an application load balancer to AWS EC2 using Terraform

Create a web-server on AWS EC2 instance using Terraform and user data

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In this note, I detail all the steps required to create a bare-bone web server on AWS EC2. I discuss from creating the VPC, subnets, internet gateway, security group, and EC2 instances to finally automating the process via Terraform and user data. Note: I did not include the concepts of load balancing, installing a certificate, … Continue reading Create a web-server on AWS EC2 instance using Terraform and user data

Download AWS S3 bucket into an EC2 instance in 5 steps using user data and Terraform

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I required a few files and folders on an EC2 instance as part of the provisioning process. So, the objective was to upload these files and folders into an AWS S3 bucket and download them from the EC2 instance with the assistance of the user data script and Terraform. Note: As a reader of this … Continue reading Download AWS S3 bucket into an EC2 instance in 5 steps using user data and Terraform

Install AWS CLI on a Windows EC2 instance using Terraform and user data

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In the last post, I discussed the steps involved in installing AWS.Tools module for PowerShell on AWS EC2 using user data and Terraform. This post lists the steps to install the AWS CLI on an AWS Windows EC2 instance. I used EC2 user data and Terraform to automate AWS CLI installation as part of the … Continue reading Install AWS CLI on a Windows EC2 instance using Terraform and user data

Install AWS.Tools module for PowerShell on AWS EC2 using user data and Terraform

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I was under the impression that all AWS EC2 instances have the latest version of AWS CLI installed. So, I was in for a pretty shock when I discovered that is not always the case. However, I was required to use the AWS CLI, and since this was an EC2 with Windows OS, I proceeded … Continue reading Install AWS.Tools module for PowerShell on AWS EC2 using user data and Terraform

Manage sensitive variables in AWS EC2 user data with Terraform

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If you have worked with 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 AWS EC2 instance as part of … Continue reading Manage sensitive variables in AWS EC2 user data with Terraform

Attach IAM role to AWS EC2 instance using Terraform

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I have a fair level of understanding about the relationship between AWS 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 heard of EC2s being … Continue reading Attach IAM role to AWS EC2 instance using Terraform