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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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Running Ansible as Docker container

Running Ansible as Docker container

Published October 20, 2017

Today I am going to show how to put ansible on docker. You may ask why? Well, many reasons, first of all pure curiosity on how to do it, second,
you may end up in environment where you don’t have ansible installed nor you have a
permissions to install anything, but free to pull docker images, a sort of immutable infrastructure.

Apart from learning how to dockerize some tool, you also will have a chance to play with ansible and ansible-playbook, which is one of the most used devops tools these days.

So after a bit of googling I found how to install ansible, it is couple lines of bash script. With this information in hand, all we
have to do is just put the script into the Dockerfile, so I created a file called Dockerfile.ansible.cnf:

FROM ubuntu

USER root

RUN \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y software-properties-common && \
  apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y --force-yes ansible

RUN mkdir /ansible
WORKDIR /ansible

Let’s create an image and tag it:

docker build -f Dockerfile.ansible.cnf -t myansible .

Time to test it:

docker run --name myansible --rm    myansible  ansible --version
ansible 2.4.0.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

Nice work, let’s continue.

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