k3a cluster on AWS that runs simple python app connecting to cloud database. Simply an lab on exploring AWS further after flask1 project.

There are templates for that while creating user, just select everything with EC2 and Full in name. Do not use your root AWS user and turn on MFA auth for that account!

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="YOUR IAM ACCESS ID"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR IAM ACCESS KEY"
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="YOUR REGION LIKE eu-central-1"
ACCOUNT_ID=12_digit_id

This will download aws plugin into .terraform terraform init

terraform plan

terraform apply
terraform show

Terraform has ran commands to start k3s cluster via docker-compose, so we are all set kubectl works from user ec2-user

terraform destroy