VMLab Automation AWS Deployment

Terraform files for fully-automated deployment of VMLabAutomation on ECS cluster on AWS. Basic configuration contains database, app and selected number of worker instences. The deployed system is described here.

Repository includes two main parts:

1. app folder which contains terraform code needed for app deployment.
2. ami folder which contains some packer files to build Amazon AMIs for workers and P4 lab. Also terraform with bucket and role needed for ami import is included there.

Setup app

Requires: terraform 0.14.7

1. Navigate to Amazon AWS Console and copy credentials in format:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=
aws_secret_access_key=
aws_session_token=

2. Paste them in ./.aws/credentials
3. cd ami
4. Create ami using packer packer build amis/amzn_ecs_worker.pkr.hcl and copy ami id into var.cluster_ami
5. cd app
6. Run cp ./env/secret.template.tfvars ./env/secret.tfvars and paste required credentials there
7. Then in the app folder type: terraform -chdir=scripts init
8. terraform -chdir=scripts apply -var-file=../env/dev.tfvars -var-file=../env/secret.tfvars
9. Enjoy!

Create P4 AMI

1. cd ami/p4-machine
2. vagrant up
3. Stop machine manually (shutdown doesn't work well)
4. cd ..
5. packer build p4lab.pkr.hcl

Lesson learned

AWS doesn't support nested virtualization on smaller instances...