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(🚧 WIP) A Highly Available Wordpress infrastucture on AWS with Terraform

This project was inspired from Hosting WordPress on AWS as a menas of applying some of the study material for both the AWS Soultion Architect Associate exam and HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate.

Architecture Diagram

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Objective

Automating infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform for the following services
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Internet Gateway (IGW)
- NAT Gateway (across all public subnets)
- Amazon VPC subnets (public, private (data, web)) in all the Availability Zones (AZs) selected
- Routing tables for public subnets - routing through IGW
- Routing tables for private subnets - routing through NAT Gateway
- Mulitple VPC Security Groups
- Bastion Auto Scaling Group (launching no instances) - in public subnets (public)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Aurora cluster - in private subnets (data)
- Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system - with mount targets in private subnets (data)
- Amazon ElastiCache cache cluster (optional) - in private subnets (data)
- Wordpress Auto Scaling Group (launching 2 instances) - in private subnets (web)
- Amazon CloudFront distribution (optional)
- Amazon Route53 DNS record set (optional)
LEMP stack and WordPress installation and configuration on EC2

Requirments to Run This Project

Terraform if you don't have it already you can Download it here
AWS CLI if you don't have it configured you find the steps to install then configure it here, also if you wish to use another profile than the default one, you will simply need to change the profile parameter in provider.tf