AWS Infrastructure with Terraform

Requirements

To run and use this project one must have:

• An AWS account
• Terraform installed
• AWS CLI

From the AWS Console

Create:

• Programmatic user
• S3 Bucket

From the projects terminal

Authenticate

aws configure

Add the access key and the secret access key that you downloaded when the user was created.

Configure the backend

In the versions.tf file, set the default value of the bucket variable to the bucket name you created above.

Provision the infrastructure

terraform init

terraform get

terraform apply

Fill the secrets in Secret Manager with accurate values, then rerun terraform apply.

Configure kubectl

To retrieve the access credentials for the cluster and configure kubectl

(Replace region_code with the AWS cluster region and name_of_the_cluster witht your cluster name)

aws eks --region region_code update-kubeconfig \
    --name name_of_the_cluster