Provision an EC2 instance and configure it with Bolt

WORKFLOW

This workflow uses Terraform to provision an EC2 instance, then it runs a Bolt plan to configure it.

Source

Code

Relay uses YAML to define the steps in a workflow.

Graph

Each step in the workflow is visualized below.

ec2-provision-and-configure-with-bolt

This workflow uses Terraform to provision an EC2 instance, then it runs a Bolt plan to configure it.

Prerequisites

Before you run the workflow, make sure you have access to the following:

An AWS account that has the privilege to create an EC2 instance and a security group and the ability to read and write to an S3 bucket
An AWS VPC where u want to deploy your setup
A SSH key to connect to the EC2 instance (create or upload it to AWS).
A Repository with a Boltdir that you would like to run on the EC2 instance.

Run the workflow

Add the workflow in Relay
Setup unconfigured connections:
- Click Setup
- On the right sidebar, you will have a list of unconfigured Connections
- Get your AWS account credentials and configure the terraform-provider aws connection.
- Configure the bolt-ec2-private-key ssh connection.
- Configure the bolt-repo-private-key ssh connection.
Click Run and when prompted, fill in any relevant parameters.