About

This basic project is about to setup a lamp environment using autoscaling, load balancing, ssl configuration, RDS and an mounted volume with EFS.

The project creates the following resources:

• 1 RDS instance
• 1 EC2 instance (Launch Configuration, Autoscaling)
• 1 Application Load Balancer (SSL need to point to an existing ACM resource)
• Private and Public subnets
• 1 EFS volume

Configuration

Inside of the dev folder

Create the file terraform.tfvars

DB_USER=""
DB_PASSWORD=""
DB_NAME=""
vpc_id="vpc-"
key_name=
web_instance_type=
db_instance_type=
domain=

Also update the aws_ami name and profile name in provider.tf.

Plan and Apply

Check the changes are ok running

terraform plan

Apply the changes

terraform apply

Destroy

You can destroy all the resources with the following command

terraform destroy

AMI

I created an AMI with this the following commands and I used it as base for the autoscaling configuration.

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
apt autoremove && autoclean -y
apt-get install -y apache2
apt-get install -y php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip

a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html