UITGO Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Setup Instruction
  • Create IAM user
  • Run Terraform

Introduction

This repository contains the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for UITGO, using Terraform to automate the deployment of AWS resources.

Setup Instructions:

1. Create IAM user

• Go to IAM section in AWS Management Console
• In the left panel, select Users
• Click Create user, then enter a username of your choice
• Choose attach the necessary policies. Under Permissions policies, choose AdministratorAccess in order to allow Terraform full access to manage resources
• Once the user is created, it will appear in the users list
• Click on that user and go to Security Credentials tab
• Scroll down to Access keys, then click Create access key
• In use case section, select CLI, check the box for I understand the above recommendation and want to proceed to create an access key.
• After creating access keys, we can either download the CSV file to save the keys or copy them directly (secret access key is only shown once)

2. Run Terraform

• Clone the repo

https://github.com/UITgo/IaC.git
cd UITGO

• In terminal, cd UITGO, and configure your aws

aws configure

• Initialize Terraform

terraform init

• Ensures your configuration syntax and structure are correct

terraform validate

• Preview the Deployment. This shows all resources that Terraform will create, modify, or destroy

terraform plan

• Apply the Configuration

terraform apply