Using GitHub Actions to create Nginx web server by Terraform and Ansible

This repository includes the Terraform and Ansible files to provision following components,

• An EC2 instance exposed port 80 and 22
• Install nginx package by yum package manager
• Any neccessary resources on AWS

And two GitHub Actions workflow files for,

• Apply Terraform scripts and run Ansible playbook
• Upload Terraform state file to specified S3 bucket
• Upload Terraform dependencies lock file to specified S3 bucket
• Destroy all the resources created by Terraform

Usage

1. Fork this repository
2. Go to your repository's Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions
3. Add 4 repository secrets by using the names as the image below

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID is your AWS access key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY is your AWS secret access key
EC2_PRIVATE_KEY is the private key of your SSH key pair
EC2_PUBLIC_KEY is your public key of your SSH key pair

Trigger creation workflow

1. Go to your repository's Actions
2. Choose Create a Nginx Web Server on your AWS account from the left menu
3. Click the Run workflow button and fill your AWS region and S3 bucket name
4. Trigger the workflow

Trigger deletion workflow

1. Go to your repository's Actions
2. Choose Clean up all resources created by Terraform and Ansible from the left menu
3. Click the Run workflow button and fill your AWS region and S3 bucket name
4. Trigger the workflow