This provides a template for running a simple two-tier architecture on Amazon Web services. The premise is that you have a VPC, and an app server running behind an ELB serving traffic.
After you run terraform apply on this configuration, it will
automatically output the DNS address of the ELB. After your instance
registers, this should respond with the default nginx web page.
Create an "aws_provider_override.tf" file and enter your real secret key and access key. Create a terraform.tfvars file and enter the values for the variables aws_region, availability_zone, key_path and key_name.
Run with a command like this:
terraform apply -var 'key_name={your_aws_key_name}' \
-var 'key_path={location_of_your_key_in_your_local_machine}'`
For example:
terraform apply -var 'key_name=terraform' -var 'key_path=/Users/jsmith/.ssh/terraform.pem'