GitLab | Simple CICD Pipeline Project to Deploy AWS Infrastructure using Terraform!
DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Configuration Management and support roles, skilled in tools like AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible. I focus on automating processes, improving system performance, and making networks scalable and secure in cloud environments.
Project Overview
Goal
The primary objective of this project is to deploy a ec2 instance in a secure single-tier architecture using IAC code (Terraform) through Gitlab CI pipeline.
Pre-Requisites
Before starting the deployment, ensure you have the following:
Sign up for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier account.
Create IAM role with EC2 and s3 full admin role access
Get aws access key and secret key
Gitlab Account and Repository
Folder structure
Deployment
- Create new bucket in s3 and add bucket name in backend.tf file
terraform {
backend "s3" {
bucket = "aws-ec2-creation-tfstate"
region="us-east-1"
key="terrform.tfstate"
}
}
Add aws access key and secret key in GitLab repository environment variable setting> CICD> variable
Create GitLab account token from below path and add in environment variable setting > access tokens> project access tokens> add token
Create .gitlab-ci.yml file and write pipeline code as mentioned in file
Commit the changes to main branch
Validation
check the aws account and verify ec2 and s3 created
Ensure ec2 accessible from outside of aws
AWS Single Tier architecture Diagram
The complete CICD pipeline code is available in GitLab repo .
