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AWS for System Administrators

You're reading from   AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800201538
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Lakhera Prashant Lakhera
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM 4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure
5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC 6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2 7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure
8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing 9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling 10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) 11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers
12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS 13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis 14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution 15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions 16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an Auto Scaling group using Terraform

So far, we have created Auto Scaling groups manually, but as we did in other chapters, we will also see how to automate the process of Auto Scaling group creation using Terraform. These are the steps that we need to follow:

  1. The first step is to create the launch configuration. For that purpose, we are going to use the aws_launch_configuration resource. This is going to specify how to configure each EC2 instance's parameters, such as the image ID (AMI), instance type, security group, and user data.
  2. The new parameter that is defined here is the life cycle (create_before_destroy). This is always going to involve creating a resource before destroying it. For example, in the case of an EC2 instance, before terminating any instance, it always creates a new one, waits for it to come up, and then removes the old EC2 instance:
    resource "aws_launch_configuration" "my-asg-launch-config" {
      image_id&...
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