Easily launch EC2 instance, with SSH access, using Terraform
Terraform is a powerful tool for configuring infrastructure on a long list of cloud-based systems. Since AWS is such a complex system we look for simpler ways to do anything on AWS. Terraform promises to make AWS deployments much simpler. To test that let's learn how to deploy some EC2 instances on AWS using Terraform.
Easily launch RDS and EC2 instance, with SSH access, using Terraform
We commonly must deploy on AWS both running code and a database service. AWS offers a cloud based database system, RDS, and in this tutorial we will look at launching an AWS EC2 instance along with an RDS database inside a custom-built AWS Virtual Private Cluster (VPC). The RDS database will not be reachable from the public Internet, and only from within the VPC we will create. Our tool for this will be Terraform, a powerful tool for configuring infrastructure on a long list of cloud-based systems
How to fix AWS CLI hangs on AWS EC2 instance
It seems that setting up an AWS EC2 instance in the default VPC stands a high chance of being unable to use the AWS CLI from inside the instance. That was my experience, anyway, and the solution is extremely non-obvious, non-intuitive, and requires ensuring that the instance can do outbound HTTPS traffic, and uses the correct public DNS servers.
