Wirecutter Demo

This project creates a VPC, public and private subnets, and an nginx server.

Getting Started

AWS Credentials

1. Install the AWS CLI. Details are here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html

2. Configure credentials either with the CLI or the environment variables: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html

Install Terraform

Ensure terraform is installed. Install packages are available here: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html Terraform v0.12 is required.

Installation

Clone the repo locally:

git clone https://github.com/lisakoivu/wc.git

Usage example

Change directory to the root of the repo, where the main.tf file resides.

Run terraform init to install needed packages.

Run terraform plan to view changes.

If you are satisfied with the plan output, run terraform apply. The apply command will display the IP address of the newly created server. For example:

Apply complete! Resources: 37 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

instance_ip_addr = 3.220.174.188

This server is now accessible via SSH by dave. Example connect string:

ssh -i dave.pem dave@3.220.174.188

Test pages displayed

home page: displays the default nginx server page.

hello: The universal greeting.

example: Prompts for basic auth, and displays content from www.orlandosentinel.com. I chose to use a different website than http://example.com, as it's dead.

Release History

• 0.1.0
  • The first proper release
• 0.0.1
  • Work in progress