Using Packer and Terraform to Setup Jenkins Master-Slave Architecture

• VPC Setup with Terraform (S3 and DynamoDB Backend for State Management)
• Jenkins Master/Slave AMI Creation with Packer
• Jenkins Master EC2 Instance Creation (SG, IAM and others)
• Jenkins Slave AutoScaling Group (SG, IAM and others)
• Attach Jenkins Node to Master and Install most of the required plugins

• Configuring the AWS CLI - AWS Command Line Interface
• Create private and public SSH keys

cd ~/.ssh/; ssh-keygen -t rsa -m PEM -C "Jenkins master key" -f "jenkinsMaster_rsa"
cd ~/.ssh/; ssh-keygen -t rsa -m PEM -C "Jenkins agent key" -f "jenkinsAgent_rsa"

./setup.sh

./destroy.sh

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==> amazon-ebs: Creating AMI tags
    amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Tool": "Packer"
    amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Author": "nchotai"
...
==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> amazon-ebs: AMIs were created:
eu-west-1: ami-0fc1d54f3e6867f97