alexstiff-website

Overview

This will create the following:

• DynamoDB:

  • DynamoDB table for remote Terraform state locking

• S3:

  • Bucket for remote Terraform state

• Route 53:

  • Hosted Zone
  • A-record with A record containing GitHub pages IP addresses

Initial set up

Create a file secret.tfvars containing AWS secret key and access key:

# secret.tfvars
access_key = "AWSACCESSKEY"

secret_key = "MYSECRETAWSSECRETKEY"

Initialise and provision the S3 backend from the s3-backend directory, which consists of S3 bucket for storage and DynamoDB for remote state locking.

cd s3-backend
terraform init
terraform apply -var-file=../secret.tfvars
cd -

Initialise everything else.

terraform init -backend-config=secret.tfvars

Update all resources.

terraform apply -var-file=secret.tfvars