ansible-terraform-infra

A bite-sized example using Terraform + Ansible to spin up one EC2 instance and install NGINX on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI configured (aws configure) or via environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION)

• Terraform ≥0.14

• Ansible ≥2.9

• SSH key pair:

Either create one in the AWS console and reference it via key_name, or let Terraform generate one for you.

• s3 bucket S3 bucket to store state lock

Repo structure

ansible-terraform-infra/ ├── terraform/ │ ├── main.tf │ └── backend.tf ├── ansible/ │ ├── inventory.ini # add the public_ip here │ └── playbook.yml ├── .gitignore └── README.md

Usage

1. Terraform

cd terraform
terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply -auto-approve

Copy the public_ip from the output into ansible/inventory.ini.

2. Ansible

cd ../ansible
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini playbook.yml

Clean up

cd terraform
terraform destroy -auto-approve