The work in this repo is used to setup a Virtual Private Cloud and deploy eight.one to AWS.

Creating Amazon Machine Images

• Terraform

First off, we copy the terraform.tfvars.example to a new file terraform.tfvars since this is where we store out environment variables/secrets.

To be able to create a network image we first need to create a machine image using packer so as to add the AMI to the terraform.tfvars file.

Note The instructions Here would help guide in creating AMIs.

Once we have an image, we replace the following placeholders in the terraform.tfvars file with the values from our AWS account. We add our secret Key and Secret Id inside the file.

secret_id="<AMAZON_SECRET_ID>"
ami_id="<AMI_ID>"
secret_key="<AMAZON_SECRET_KEY>"
nat_instance_ami="<AMI_ID_FOR_NAT_INSTANCE>"
back_end_ami="<AMI_FOR_FRONT_END>"
front_end_ami="<FRONT_END_AMI>"

Once the setup is complete, we just run terraform plan to plan on how the changes would be applied to the infrastructure. After that we run terraform apply to apply the changes to AWS.

And with that, we have our private network with all the instances. We navigate to instances and enter the IP address of the frontend to access the FronteEnd of the application. To confirm the resources, go to the AWS console

To destroy the resources, just run terraform destroy then input yes to confirm that you want to destroy the resources.