DetectionLab/AWS/Terraform/Pre-Built_AMIs.md

Method 1 - Use Pre-Built AMIs

This method uses Terraform to bring DetectionLab infrastructure online by using pre-built shared AMIs.

The supplied Terraform configuration can then be used to create EC2 instances and all requisite networking components.

Prerequisites

• A system with Terraform, AWS CLI and git installed
• An AWS account
• AWS credentials for Terraform

Step by step guide

1. Ensure the prerequisites are installed:

• Terraform
• AWS CLI
• git

2. Configure the AWS command line utility and set up a user for Terraform via aws configure --profile terraform.
3. Create a private/public keypair to use to SSH into logger: ssh-keygen -b 2048 -f ~/.ssh/id_logger
4. Copy the file at /DetectionLab/Terraform/terraform.tfvars.example to /DetectionLab/Terraform/terraform.tfvars
5. In terraform.tfvars, provide overrides for the variables specified in variables.tf
6. From the /DetectionLab/Terraform directory, run terraform init to setup the initial Terraform configuration
7. Run terraform apply to begin the provisioning process