Tag Archives: AWS

Terraform: creating a project with an AWS EC2, VPC, and AWS cross-region VPC peering connection

18 March 2019
 

 One of the disappointing surprises in my AWS CloudFormation experience was the fact that it wasn’t able to automatically create cross-region VPC-peering connections. Note: this post originally was written in Rus on 28 June 2018 but now CloudFormation can do it, check the PeerRegion parameter of the AWS::EC2::VPCPeeringConnection resource. As a result – it tries… Read More »

Terraform: main commands, state-files, backend storages, and modules in examples on AWS

17 March 2019
 

 Examples of how to use Terraform, work with its backends and modules. Here will set up a simple EC2 instance in AWS and will store Terraform’s state-files in an AWS S3 bucket. In short terms – but with real examples and links to documentation. Installation on Arch Linux: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S terraform [/simterm]… Read More »