Terraform Examples

Terraform has since added examples here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/examples.

AWS Windows

Note that you will need to update the Windows Server 2012 R2 Base ami in variables.tf before using.

aws-winrm-instance

Shows how to use user_data to configure WinRM, open firewall, and set the Administrator password for AWS Window 2012R2 Base image.

aws-asg-provision

Shows how to use user_data to provision an ASG server instance with Chef.

The user_data script does the following:

• downloads and install chef-client
• downloads s3://mybucket/chef-validator.pem and s3://mybucket/encrypted_data_bag_secret
• applies provisioning tag to instance
• runs chef-client with provided runlist and environment && if successful will apply tags (Note that Name tag and Chef node/client names will be name appended with the instance id e.g. example-i-a1b2c3d4)
• removes provisioning tag

Note that IAM must be setup to allow access to Chef server and s3. This example also expects Chef's chef-validator and encrypted_data_bag_secret to be downloadable from an S3 bucket. Be sure to change s3 paths accordingly.