Useful to quickly spin up some test droplets on AWS.
Full docs here.
Generate a set of access keys in the AWS console and if you'd like to ENV vars you can do so thus:
# Configure the AWS Provider
provider "aws" {
access_key = "${var.aws_access_key}"
secret_key = "${var.aws_secret_key}"
region = "us-east-1"
}
Alternatively a shared credentials file (in clear text on disk!) can be specified thus:
provider "aws" {
region = "eu-west-1"
shared_credentials_file = "/home/user/.aws/creds"
}
Note if you have performed aws configure you have most likely already got a plain text file on disk with this information under ~/.aws/credentials. Unless, you're using IAM roles of course - which you should be.
Once created if you'd like run Ansible against these hosts (separately from TF) then you can use the included ec2.py script in the aws-ansible-dynamic-inventory folder.
[alex@neo terraform-aws]$ ansible-console -u ec2-user -i aws-ansible-dynamic-inventory/ -b
Welcome to the ansible console.
Type help or ? to list commands.
ec2-user@all (3)[f:5]# ping
34.253.216.159 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
34.250.188.249 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
34.241.194.55 | SUCCESS => {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
If you'd like to avoid specifying a key pair everytime you run Ansible, the following snippet in your ~/.ssh/config will help.
Host 34.*
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/neo.pem
User ec2-user
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