AWS Infrastructure

Frequently-used components for maintaining our AWS infrastructure.

Dependencies and Requirements

Requires AWS CLI for interacting with AWS:

• Download and install AWS CLI:

  https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

Requires Terraform for managing AWS infrastructure.

• Download Terraform CLI:

  https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

• Assumes Terraform CLI is available in path.

  • Temporarily assumes \bin\terraform.exe.

Requires Packer for creating Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

• Download Packer CLI:

  https://www.packer.io/downloads

• Assumes Packer CLI is available in path.

  • Temporarily assumes \bin\packer.exe.

Makes extensive use of Ansible in configuring machines during image creation.

• Ansible does not support running an Ansible controller on Windows:

  • https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html
  • http://blog.rolpdog.com/2020/03/why-no-ansible-controller-for-windows.html

  Playbooks are therefore executed on the target machine using Packer's ansible-local.