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Provisioning EC2 key pairs with terraform.

Provisioning EC2 key pairs with terraform.

Published December 6, 2017

In the previous example, we created an EC2 instance, which we wouldn’t be able to access, that is because we neither provisioned a new key pair nor used existing one, which we could see from the state report:

➜  terraform_demo grep key_name terraform.tfstate
                            "key_name": "",
➜  terraform_demo

As you can see key_name is empty.

Now, if you already have a key pair which you are using to connect to your instance, which you will find
in EC2 Dashboard, NETWORK & SECURITY – Key Pairs:

then we can specify it in aws_instance section so EC2 can be accessed with that key:

resource "aws_instance" "ubuntu_zesty" {
  ami           = "ami-6b7f610f"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  key_name = "myec2key"
}

Let’s create an instance:

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Spinning up an EC2 with Terraform and Vault.

Spinning up an EC2 with Terraform and Vault.

Published December 5, 2017

Today we will look at how to setup EC2 instance with Terraform.

  1. Set up Terraform
  2. Spin up EC2
  3. Externalise secrets and other resources with terraform variables.
  4. Set up Vault as secret repo

1. Set up Terraform

So first thing first, quick installation guide, visit https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html , pick up right version and download:

➜  apps wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.1/terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip\?_ga\=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744
--2017-12-04 15:16:06--  https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.1/terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip?_ga=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744
Resolving releases.hashicorp.com... 151.101.17.183, 2a04:4e42:4::439
Connecting to releases.hashicorp.com|151.101.17.183|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 15750266 (15M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip?_ga=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744’

terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip?_ga=2.17386 100%[=================================================================================================>]  15.02M   499KB/s    in 30s

2017-12-04 15:16:36 (517 KB/s) - ‘terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip?_ga=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744’ saved [15750266/15750266]

Then unzip:

➜  apps unzip terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip\?_ga=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744
Archive:  terraform_0.11.1_darwin_amd64.zip?_ga=2.1738614.654909398.1512400028-228831855.1511115744
  inflating: terraform

Finally make sure location added to PATH:

➜  ~ export PATH=~/apps:$PATH

Check installation works:

➜  ~ terraform -v
Terraform v0.11.1

2. Spin up EC2

The plan is to spin up latest Ubuntu.

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How to add a new storage volume to Linux VM locally and on AWS EC2.

How to add a new storage volume to Linux VM locally and on AWS EC2.

Published December 2, 2017

Sooner or later we all run out of space. Today I am going to demo how to add a new
storage to Linux VM. First we will look at how to do this on local VM with virtualbox and vagrant,
then in AWS.

1. Adding a new volume locally.
2. Splitting disk into partitions
3. Spinning AWS EC2 instance and adding a new volume manually.
4. Attaching new volume with AWS CLI.

So let’s assume you have vagrant and virtualbox installed, let’s spin up a new VM:

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 && vagrant up && vagrant ssh

You can pick up newer version of Ubuntu of course, Xenial or Zesty, or any other Linux distro even, I have ubuntu/trusty64 vagrant box already downloaded, so I will be using that one.

First let’s check what we have already got there with ‘list block devices’ command:

vagrant@sensuclient:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0  40G  0 disk
`-sda1   8:1    0  40G  0 part /
vagrant@sensuclient:~$

Now let’s exit VM and stop it:


vagrant halt
==> sensuclient: Attempting graceful shutdown of VM...

Then we need to go to virtualbox and add new disk as shown below:

Once it is done, we can start VM and check devices again:

vagrant up  && vagrant ssh  

vagrant@sensuclient:~$ sudo lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL           MOUNTPOINT
sda
`-sda1 ext4   cloudimg-rootfs /
sdb

As you can see new disk, ‘sdb’ has been added to the list.

Next we need to crate a filesystem:

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