This project sets up a network to deploy the Authors Haven on AWS.

The Amazon Machine Images can be built with help of AMI building repo, follow steps on the readme to build the neccessary images.

Clone the repository and cd into ah_network. Initialize terraform with the command terraform init which initializes the current working directory containing the terraform configuration files. After the command has executes successfully you need to edit sample.terraform.tfvars by adding the aws credential files namely aws_access_key and aws_secret_key. You will also have to add the path to a key you have downloaded from aws and add it to the variable key_path with the key name added to variable aws_key_name.

The other variables needed include aws_front_ami, aws_docu_ami and aws_db_ami Which you will obtain after bulding the respective images from the AMI building repo repo.

After that you change the name of the file from sample.terraform.tfvars to terraform.tfvars. With this done you are all set to spin up the instances on aws.

Kindly install terraform on your computer.

• Terraform

After setting up everything as per the setup stage deployment to aws is all that is left. To deploy the configuration to aws run the command terraform plan and this will output a list of resources the script will deploy to aws. When you have read through and are about the resources that are going to be created use the command terraform apply to startup the process. After some while you will receive a prompt on the terminal to ask if you accept the resources to be created. You should accept with a yes but if you feel there is something you need to change type no. If you accept, the resources will be built onto aws.

• Terraform - Tool that allows you to configure infrastructure as code.

• Darius Ndubi