kubespray/contrib/terraform/aws/README.md

## Kubernetes on AWS with Terraform

**Overview:**

This project will create:
* VPC with Public and Private Subnets in # Availability Zones
* Bastion Hosts and NAT Gateways in the Public Subnet
* A dynamic number of masters, etcd, and worker nodes in the Private Subnet
 * even distributed over the # of Availability Zones
* AWS ELB in the Public Subnet for accessing the Kubernetes API from the internet

**Requirements**
- Terraform 0.8.7 or newer

**How to Use:**

- Export the variables for your AWS credentials or edit `credentials.tfvars`:

```
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="www"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY ="xxx"
export AWS_SSH_KEY_NAME="yyy"
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="zzz"
```
- Rename `contrib/terraform/aws/terraform.tfvars.example` to `terraform.tfvars`

- Update `contrib/terraform/aws/terraform.tfvars` with your data
 - Allocate new AWS Elastic IPs: Depending on # of Availability Zones used (2 for each AZ)
 - Create an AWS EC2 SSH Key


- Run with `terraform apply --var-file="credentials.tfvars"` or `terraform apply` depending if you exported your AWS credentials

- Terraform automatically creates an Ansible Inventory file called `hosts` with the created infrastructure in the directory `inventory`

- Once the infrastructure is created, you can run the kargo playbooks and supply inventory/hosts with the `-i` flag.

**Troubleshooting**

***Remaining AWS IAM Instance Profile***:

If the cluster was destroyed without using Terraform it is possible that
the AWS IAM Instance Profiles still remain. To delete them you can use
the `AWS CLI` with the following command:
```
aws iam delete-instance-profile --region <region_name> --instance-profile-name <profile_name>
```

***Ansible Inventory doesnt get created:***

It could happen that Terraform doesnt create an Ansible Inventory file automatically. If this is the case copy the output after `inventory=` and create a file named `hosts`in the directory `inventory` and paste the inventory into the file.

**Architecture**

Pictured is an AWS Infrastructure created with this Terraform project distributed over two Availability Zones.

![AWS Infrastructure with Terraform  ](docs/aws_kargo.png)