BTW, I am on ubuntu linux ( 14.04 trusty )
AWS CLI ?
- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
AWS Key-pair?
- http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-create-an-amazon-ec2-key-pair-using-the-aws-cli/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html#how-to-generate-your-own-key-and-import-it-to-aws
Terraform?
- https://www.terraform.io
AWS and Terraform?
- A very old dated not working example : http://awsadvent.tumblr.com/post/105835590469/aws-advent-2014-using-terraform-to-build
- A Very hard problem at first to make terraform work
- $aws ec2 --region us-west-2 create-key-pair --key-name terraform --output text
- This will create a key-pair in us-west-2 region and output will be a public key displayed
- $aws ec2 --region us-west-2 create-key-pair --key-name terraform --output text > terraform.pem
- Create a terraform.pem file out of this THIS DO not work either, because AWS needs only public key and not the private key
- https://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ssh-keys/
- With lots of struggle i managed to create certificate and learned a lot
- AWS has changed the way their key-pair works to be compatible with openSSL
- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/import-key-pair.html
- How to create a local key-pair using openssl and import into AWS correctly?
- #openssl genrsa -out terraform.pem 2048
- This is a cert , private key
- #openssl rsa -in terraform.pem -pubout > terraform.pub
- Creating a public key , AWS key pair just needs this. But there is a catch this file has unwanted contents (BEGIN PUBLIC KEY , END PUBLIC KEY etc...)and new lines
- #tr -d '\n' < terraform.pub > terraform.pub1; mv terraform1.pub to terraform.pub
- This is to truncate all new lines, edit it and remove other unwanted text
- How to load this above key-pair into AWS?
- #aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name terraform --public-key-material <here goes the copy paste of terraform.pub>
- Remember always the public keys are for the client , in this case here AWS
- How to start the terraform simple application using above key-pairs?
- #terraform apply -var 'key_name=terraform-test' -var 'public_key_path=terraform.pub'
- This takes a lot of time , it created instance and try to connect over SSH to setup terraform playbook.
