README.md

AWS - Infra as code

This repository contains infrastructure code used to manage my AWS account.

Pre-requisites

• Terraform 0.12
• Ansible 2.5.2
• aws-iam-authenticator

Infra setup using terraform

1. Create new AWS account
2. Create new IAM user with admin privileges and add the access key ID and secret access key to ~/.aws/credentials
3. Ensure there are no AWS_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY env variables defined in your local env
4. Provision dev environment
5. Review configuration variables in main.tf, especially, aws_credenital_profile variable
6. Provision infrastructure

   cd terraform/environments/dev
   terraform init
   terraform apply

Local client setup

1. Configure the path of the kubeconfig_dev-eks-cluster in the KUBECONFIG env variable for your local environment to be able to communicate with the EKS cluster using kubectl
2. Verify local kubectl setup using the command below

   $ kb get nodes

ToDos

• Monitoring and alerting
  • auto-scaling notifications