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AWS/Terraform/Ansible/OpenShift – Provision a Lightsail instance and further configure it using Infrastructure as Code

In this article we will Provision a LightSail host with docker/docker-compose on it using Terraform and install/initialize OpenShift Origin on it using Ansible.

OpenShift is Red Hat’s containerization platform which utilizes Kubernetes. Origin (what we will be working with here) is the opensource implementation of it.

We will use ‘myweb’ as an example in this article, using the same base path of ‘dev’ that was previously created, the container-admin group and using ~/.local/bin for the binaries.

Please ensure you have gone through the previous Terraform, Ansible, related preceding articles and ‘Get started with Lightsail for free’.

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Edit the IAM Policy “AllowLightsail”:
AWS UI Console -> Services -> Security, Identity, & Compliance -> IAM -> Policies -> AllowLightsail -> Edit Policy -> JSON ->

Append lightsail:OpenInstancePublicPorts and lightsail:CloseInstancePublicPorts after lightsail:ReleaseStaticIp.

It will look like this:

                  "lightsail:ReleaseStaticIp",
                  "lightsail:OpenInstancePublicPorts",
                  "lightsail:CloseInstancePublicPorts"

Review Policy -> Save Changes

Go in to the dev directory/link located within your home directory:

$ cd ~/dev

Upgrade the AWS CLI on your host:

$ pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/aws

Grab the latest version of Terraform:

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.20/terraform_0.12.20_linux_amd64.zip

Unzip it to ~/.local/bin and set permissions accordingly on it:

$ unzip terraform_0.12.20_linux_amd64.zip -d ~/.local/bin && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/terraform

Change to the myweb directory inside terraform:

$ cd terraform/myweb

Upgrade our code to 12.20 (type yes and enter when prompted):

$ terraform 0.12upgrade

Change our instance from a micro to a medium so it will have sufficient resources to run OpenShift Origin and related:

$ sed -i s:micro_2_0:medium_2_0: lightsail.tf

Output the Public IP of the Provisioned host (along with connection parameters and variables) in to a file which we will feed in to an Ansible playbook run:

$ cat << 'EOF' >> output.tf
>
> resource "local_file" "hosts" {
>   content              = "[vps]\n${aws_lightsail_static_ip.myweb.ip_address} ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/myweb instance=${aws_lightsail_instance.myweb.name}"
>   filename             = "${path.module}/../../ansible/hosts"
>   directory_permission = 0754
>   file_permission      = 0664
> }
> EOF 

Amend an item from the user_data script:

$ sed -i 's:sudo apt-key add -:apt-key add -:' scripts/install.sh

Initialize the directory/refresh module(s):

$ terraform init

Run a dry-run to see what will occur:

$ terraform plan

Provision:

$ terraform apply -auto-approve

Create a work folder for an Ansible playbook:

$ cd ../../ansible
$ mkdir -p openshift/scripts && cd openshift

Create an Ansible playbook which will install/initialize OpenShift Origin on our provisioned host:

$ cat << 'EOF' > openshift.yml 
> # Install, initialize OpenShift Origin and create a destroy routine for it
> ---
> - hosts: vps
>   connection: local
>
>   vars:
>     openshift_directory: /home/ubuntu/.local/etc/openshift
>
>   tasks:
>     - name: Discover Services
>       service_facts:
>
>     - name: Check if openshift directory exists
>       stat:
>         path: "{{ openshift_directory }}"
>       register: openshift_dir
>
>     - name: Open Firewall Ports
>       delegate_to: localhost
>       command: bash -c './scripts/firewall.sh open {{ hostvars[groups['vps'][0]].instance }}'
>       when:
>         - "'docker' in services"
>         - openshift_dir.stat.exists == False
>  
>     - name: Copy and Run install
>       environment:
>         PATH: "{{ ansible_env.PATH}}:{{ openshift_directory }}/../../bin"
>       args:
>         executable: /bin/bash
>       script: "./scripts/install.sh {{ ansible_ssh_host }}"
>       when:
>         - "'docker' in services"
>         - openshift_dir.stat.exists == False
>
>     - debug: msg="Please install docker to proceed."
>       when: "'docker' not in services"
>
>     - debug: msg="Install script has already been completed.  Run this playbook with the destroy tag, then run once again normally to re-intialize openshift."
>       when: openshift_dir.stat.exists == True
>
>     - name: Destroy
>       become: yes
>       environment:
>         PATH: "{{ ansible_env.PATH}}:{{ openshift_directory }}/../../bin"
>       args:
>         executable: /bin/bash
>       shell: "cd {{ openshift_directory }} && oc cluster down && cd ../ && rm -r {{ openshift_directory }}/../../../.kube {{ openshift_directory }}"
>       tags: [ 'never', 'destroy' ]
>
>     - name: Close Firewall Ports
>       delegate_to: localhost
>       command: bash -c './scripts/firewall.sh close {{ hostvars[groups['vps'][0]].instance }}'
>       tags: [ 'never', 'destroy' ]
> EOF    

Create a shell script which will pull the latest release of client tools from GitHub, place the needed binaries in ~/.local/bin, set insecure registry on Docker and initialize:

$ cat << 'EOF' > scripts/install.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> [[ -z $* ]] && { echo "Please specify a Public IP or Host/Domain name." && exit 1; }
> # Fetch and Install
> file_url="$(curl -sL https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/latest | grep "download.*client.*linux-64" | cut -f2 -d\" | sed 's/^/https:\/\/github.com/')"
> [[ -z $file_url ]] && { echo "The URL could not be obtained.  Please try again shortly." && exit 1; }
> file_name="$(echo $file_url | cut -f9 -d/)"
> if [[ ! -f $file_name ]]; then
>         curl -sL $file_url --output $file_name
>         folder_name="$(tar ztf $file_name 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed s:/.*::)"
>         [[ -z $folder_name ]] && { echo "The archive could not be read.  Please try again." && rm -f $file_name && exit 1; }
>         tar zxf $file_name
>         mv $folder_name/oc $folder_name/kubectl $HOME/.local/bin && rm -r $folder_name
>         chmod 754 $HOME/.local/bin/oc $HOME/.local/bin/kubectl
> fi
> # Docker insecure
> [[ $(grep insecure /etc/docker/daemon.json &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 2 ]] && redirect=">"
> [[ $(grep insecure /etc/docker/daemon.json &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 1 ]] && redirect=">>"
> [[ $(grep insecure /etc/docker/daemon.json &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]] || { sudo bash -c "cat << 'EOF' $redirect /etc/docker/daemon.json
> {
>         \"insecure-registries\" : [ \"172.30.0.0/16\" ]
> }
> EOF" && sudo systemctl restart docker; }
> # OpenShift Origin up
> [[ ! -d $HOME/.local/etc/openshift ]] && { mkdir -p $HOME/.local/etc/openshift && cd $HOME/.local/etc/openshift; } || { cd $HOME/.local/etc/openshift && oc cluster down; }
> oc cluster up --public-hostname=$1
>
> exit 0
> EOF 

The Lightsail firewall functionality is currently being implemented in Terraform and is not available in Ansible. In the interim, we will create a shell script to open and close ports needed by OpenShift Origin (using the AWS CLI). This script will be run locally via the Playbook during the create and destroy routines:

$ cat << 'EOF' > scripts/firewall.sh && chmod 754 scripts/firewall.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> openshift_ports="53/UDP 443/TCP 1936/TCP 4001/TCP 7001/TCP 8053/UDP 8443/TCP 10250_10259/TCP"
> #
> [[ -z $* || $(echo $* | xargs -n1 | wc -l) -ne 2 || ! ($* =~ $(echo '\<open\>') || $* =~ $(echo '\<close\>')) ]] && { echo "Please pass in the desired action [ open, close ] and instance [ site_myweb ]." && exit 2; }
> #
> instance="$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | sed '/\<open\>/d; /\<close\>/d')"
> [[ -z $instance ]] && { echo "Please double-check the passed in instance." && exit 1; }
> action="$(echo $* | xargs -n1 | grep -v $instance)"
> #
> for port in $openshift_ports; do
>         aws lightsail $action-instance-public-ports --instance $instance --port-info fromPort=$(echo $port | cut -f1 -d_ | cut -f1  -d/),protocol=$(echo $port | cut -f2 -d/),toPort=$(echo $port | cut -f2 -d_ | cut -f1 -d/)
> done
> #
>
> exit 0
> EOF 

Run the Ansible playbook after a few minutes (accept the host key by typing yes and hitting enter when prompted):

$ ansible-playbook -i ../hosts openshift.yml

After a short while, log on to the instance:

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/myweb ubuntu@<The value of static_public_ip that was reported.  One can also use 'terraform output static_public_ip' to print it again.>

To get an overview of the current project with any identified issues:

$ oc status --suggest

Log on as Admin via CMD Line and switch to the default project:

$ oc login -u system:admin -n default

Logout of the session:

$ oc logout

Please see the Command-Line Walkthrough.

Logout from the host:

$ logout

Log on as Admin via Web Browser (replace <PUBLIC_IP>):

https://<PUBLIC_IP>:8443/console (You will get a Certificate/Site warning due to a mismatch).

Please see the Web Console Walkthrough.

To shut down the OpenShift Origin cluster, destroy the working folder and start anew (you can re-run the playbook normally to reinitialize):

$ ansible-playbook -i ../hosts openshift.yml --tags "destroy"

Tear down what was created by first performing a dry-run to see what will occur:

$ cd ../../terraform/myweb && terraform plan -destroy 

Tear down the instance:

$ terraform destroy -auto-approve

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References:
how-to-install-openshift-origin-on-ubuntu-18-04

Source:
ansible_openshift

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.15_beta1 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.15_beta1 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (384.15_beta1).

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Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.15_beta1.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.15_beta1.trx

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Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

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Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.14_2 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.14_2 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (384.14_2).

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Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.14_2.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.14_2.trx

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Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

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Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

AWS/Ansible – Provision a Lightsail instance using Infrastructure as Code

Note: This article has been duplicated from the previous article which uses Terraform and has been modified for Ansible.

AWS has introduced Lightsail to compete with Digital Ocean, Linode, etc. for an inexpensive VPS (Virtual Private Server) offering.

In this article we will use Ansible (Infrastructure as Code) to swiftly bring up an AWS Lightsail instance in us-east-1 on a dynamic IP and install docker/docker-compose on it.

We will use ‘myweb’ as an example in this article, using the same base path of ‘dev’ that was previously created, the container-admin group and using ~/.local/bin|lib for the binaries/libraries.

Please use ‘Get started with Lightsail for free’ prior to commencing with this article.

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Go in to the dev directory/link located within your home directory:

$ cd ~/dev

Upgrade the AWS CLI on your host:

$ pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/aws

Install/Upgrade Ansible:

$ pip3 install ansible --upgrade --user && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/ansible ~/.local/bin/ansible-playbook

Install/Upgrade Boto3:

$ pip3 install boto3 --upgrade --user

Create a work folder and change in to it:

$ mkdir -p ansible/myweb/scripts && cd ansible/myweb

Add an IAM Policy to the container-admin group so it will have access to the Lightsail API:
AWS UI Console -> Services -> Security, Identity, & Compliance -> IAM -> Policies -> Create Policy -> JSON (replace <AWS ACCOUNT ID> in the Resource arn with your Account’s ID (shown under the top right drop-down (of your name) within the My Account page next to the Account Id: under Account Settings)):

{
     "Version": "2012-10-17",
     "Statement": [
         {
             "Effect": "Allow",
             "Action": [
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseEvents",
                 "lightsail:GetActiveNames",
                 "lightsail:GetOperations",
                 "lightsail:GetBlueprints",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseMasterUserPassword",
                 "lightsail:ExportSnapshot",
                 "lightsail:UnpeerVpc",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseLogEvents",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseBlueprints",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseBundles",
                 "lightsail:CopySnapshot",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseMetricData",
                 "lightsail:PeerVpc",
                 "lightsail:IsVpcPeered",
                 "lightsail:UpdateRelationalDatabaseParameters",
                 "lightsail:GetRegions",
                 "lightsail:GetOperation",
                 "lightsail:GetDisks",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseParameters",
                 "lightsail:GetBundles",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseLogStreams",
                 "lightsail:CreateKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:ImportKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:DeleteKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:GetInstance",
                 "lightsail:CreateInstances",
                 "lightsail:DeleteInstance",
                 "lightsail:GetDomains",
                 "lightsail:GetDomain",
                 "lightsail:CreateDomain",
                 "lightsail:DeleteDomain",
                 "lightsail:GetStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:AllocateStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:AttachStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:DetachStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:ReleaseStaticIp"
             ],
             "Resource": "*"         
         },
         {
             "Effect": "Allow",
             "Action": "lightsail:",
             "Resource": [
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:StaticIp/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:ExportSnapshotRecord/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Instance/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:CloudFormationStackRecord/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:RelationalDatabaseSnapshot/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:RelationalDatabase/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:InstanceSnapshot/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Domain/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:LoadBalancer/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:KeyPair/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Disk/*"
             ]
         }
     ]
 }

Review Policy ->

Name: AllowLightsail
Description: Allow access to Lightsail.

Create Policy.

Groups -> container-admin -> Attach Policy -> Search for AllowLightsail -> Attach Policy.

Generate an SSH Key Pair (no password) and restrict permissions on it:

$ ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N '' -f ~/.ssh/myweb && chmod 400 ~/.ssh/myweb

Import the public key to Lightsail:

$ aws lightsail import-key-pair --key-pair-name myweb --public-key-base64 file://~/.ssh/myweb.pub

Create a hosts file and specify localhost:

$ cat << 'EOF' > hosts
> [local]
> localhost
> EOF

Create a micro instance based off of Ubuntu 18_04 and reference an extraneous file for user_data (run once script on Virtual Machine boot):

$ cat << 'EOF' > lightsail.yml
> # Create a new AWS Lightsail instance, register the instance details and add a way to destroy it
> ---
> - hosts: local
>   connection: local
>
>   tasks:
>     - lightsail:
>         state: present
>         name: myweb.com
>         region: us-east-1
>         zone: us-east-1a
>         blueprint_id: ubuntu_18_04
>         bundle_id: micro_2_0
>         key_pair_name: myweb
>         user_data: "{{ lookup('file', './scripts/install.sh') }}"
>         wait_timeout: 500
>       register: myweb
>
>     - debug: msg="Public IP is {{ myweb.instance.public_ip_address }} for {{ myweb.instance.name }}"
>       when: myweb.instance.public_ip_address is defined
>
>     - debug: msg="Run this playbook for {{ myweb.instance.name }} shortly to list the Public IP."
>       when: myweb.instance.public_ip_address is not defined
>
>     - lightsail:
>         state: absent
>         name: myweb.com
>         region: us-east-1
>       tags: [ 'never', 'destroy' ]
> EOF

Create the shell script for user_data:

$ cat << 'EOF' > scripts/install.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> MY_HOME="/home/ubuntu"
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
>
> # Install prereqs
> apt update
> apt install -y python3-pip apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
> # Install docker
> curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add -
> add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
> apt update
> apt install -y docker-ce
> # Install docker-compose
> su ubuntu -c "mkdir -p $MY_HOME/.local/bin"
> su ubuntu -c "pip3 install docker-compose --upgrade --user && chmod 754 $MY_HOME/.local/bin/docker-compose"
> usermod -aG docker ubuntu
> # Add PATH
> printf "\nexport PATH=\$PATH:$MY_HOME/.local/bin\n" >> $MY_HOME/.bashrc
>
> exit 0
> EOF

Run the playbook:

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts lightsail.yml

Log on to the instance (up to ~30 seconds may be needed for the attachment of the dynamic IP to the instance):

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/myweb ubuntu@<The value of public_ip_address that was reported.  One can also re-run the playbook to print it again.>

Type yes and hit enter to accept.

On the host (a short while is needed for the run-once script to complete):

$ docker --version
$ docker-compose --version
$ logout

Tear down the instance:

$ ansible-playbook -i hosts lightsail.yml --tags "destroy"

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References:

Source:
ansible_myweb

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.14 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.14 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (master).

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Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.14_0.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.14_0.trx

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Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

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Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.14_beta3 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.14_beta3 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (master).

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Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.14_beta3.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.14_beta3.trx

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Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

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Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.14_beta2 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.14_beta2 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (master).

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Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.14_beta2.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.14_beta2.trx

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Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

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Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

Firmware – Asuswrt-Merlin (NG) – 384.14_beta1 – RT-AC68

This is Merlin’s Asuswrt (NG) 384.14_beta1 for the ASUS RT-AC68U/R.

-sync latest changes from RMerlin (master).

—–

Download (ASUS RT-AC68U/R):
RT-AC68U_384.14_beta1.trx
Download: RT-AC68U_384.14_beta1.trx

—–

Source:
https://github.com/pershoot/asuswrt-merlin.ng
https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

——–

Installation instructions:

-Flash the .trx through the UI
-After it is completed and you are returned back to the UI, wait a short while (~30 seconds) then power cycle the router (with the on/off button).

AWS/Terraform – Provision a Lightsail instance using Infrastructure as Code

AWS has introduced Lightsail to compete with Digital Ocean, Linode, etc. for an inexpensive VPS (Virtual Private Server) offering.

In this article we will use Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) to swiftly bring up an AWS Lightsail instance in us-east-1 on a static IP, add a DNS Zone for the site in mention and install docker/docker-compose on it.

We will use ‘myweb’ as an example in this article, using the same base path of ‘dev’ that was previously created, the container-admin group and using ~/.local/bin for the binary.

Please use ‘Get started with Lightsail for free’ prior to commencing with this article.

–>
Go in to the dev directory/link located within your home directory:

$ cd ~/dev

Upgrade the AWS CLI on your host:

$ pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/aws

Grab Terraform:

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.9/terraform_0.12.9_linux_amd64.zip

Install Unzip if you do not have it installed:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install unzip

Unzip it to ~/.local/bin and set permissions accordingly on it:

$ unzip terraform_0.12.9_linux_amd64.zip -d ~/.local/bin && chmod 754 ~/.local/bin/terraform

Create a work folder and change in to it:

$ mkdir -p terraform/myweb/scripts && cd terraform/myweb

Add an IAM Policy to the container-admin group so it will have access to the Lightsail API:
AWS UI Console -> Services -> Security, Identity, & Compliance -> IAM -> Policies -> Create Policy -> JSON (replace <AWS ACCOUNT ID> in the Resource arn with your Account’s ID (shown under the top right drop-down (of your name) within the My Account page next to the Account Id: under Account Settings)):

{
     "Version": "2012-10-17",
     "Statement": [
         {
             "Effect": "Allow",
             "Action": [
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseEvents",
                 "lightsail:GetActiveNames",
                 "lightsail:GetOperations",
                 "lightsail:GetBlueprints",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseMasterUserPassword",
                 "lightsail:ExportSnapshot",
                 "lightsail:UnpeerVpc",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseLogEvents",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseBlueprints",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseBundles",
                 "lightsail:CopySnapshot",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseMetricData",
                 "lightsail:PeerVpc",
                 "lightsail:IsVpcPeered",
                 "lightsail:UpdateRelationalDatabaseParameters",
                 "lightsail:GetRegions",
                 "lightsail:GetOperation",
                 "lightsail:GetDisks",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseParameters",
                 "lightsail:GetBundles",
                 "lightsail:GetRelationalDatabaseLogStreams",
                 "lightsail:CreateKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:ImportKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:DeleteKeyPair",
                 "lightsail:GetInstance",
                 "lightsail:CreateInstances",
                 "lightsail:DeleteInstance",
                 "lightsail:GetDomains",
                 "lightsail:GetDomain",
                 "lightsail:CreateDomain",
                 "lightsail:DeleteDomain",
                 "lightsail:GetStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:AllocateStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:AttachStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:DetachStaticIp",
                 "lightsail:ReleaseStaticIp"
             ],
             "Resource": "*"         
         },
         {
             "Effect": "Allow",
             "Action": "lightsail:",
             "Resource": [
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:StaticIp/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:ExportSnapshotRecord/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Instance/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:CloudFormationStackRecord/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:RelationalDatabaseSnapshot/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:RelationalDatabase/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:InstanceSnapshot/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Domain/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:LoadBalancer/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:KeyPair/*",
                 "arn:aws:lightsail::<AWS ACCOUNT ID>:Disk/*"
             ]
         }
     ]
 }

Review Policy ->

Name: AllowLightsail
Description: Allow access to Lightsail.

Create Policy.

Groups -> container-admin -> Attach Policy -> Search for AllowLightsail -> Attach Policy.

Generate an SSH Key Pair (no password) and restrict permissions on it:

$ ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N '' -f ~/.ssh/myweb && chmod 400 ~/.ssh/myweb

Import the public key to Lightsail:

$ aws lightsail import-key-pair --key-pair-name myweb --public-key-base64 file://~/.ssh/myweb.pub

Set the version to greater then or equal to 2.0, interpolate the region and use the AWS CLI credentials file:

$ cat << 'EOF' > provider.tf
> provider "aws" {
>   version                 = ">= 2.0"
>
>   region                  = "${var.region}"
>   shared_credentials_file = "~/.aws/credentials"
>   profile                 = "default"
> }
> EOF

Set the default region as a variable:

$ cat << 'EOF' > vars.tf
> variable "region" {
>   default = "us-east-1"
> }
> EOF

Create a Lightsail DNS Zone of myweb.com, allocate a static IP for it, create a micro instance based off of Ubuntu 18_04, reference an extraneous file for user_data (run once script on Virtual Machine boot), tag it and attach the allocated Static IP to it:

$ cat << 'EOF' > lightsail.tf
> resource "aws_lightsail_domain" "myweb" {
>   domain_name = "myweb.com"
> }
>
> resource "aws_lightsail_static_ip" "myweb" {
>   name = "static-ip_myweb"
> }
>
> resource "aws_lightsail_instance" "myweb" {
>   name                    = "site_myweb"
>   availability_zone       = "${var.region}a"
>   blueprint_id            = "ubuntu_18_04"
>   bundle_id               = "micro_2_0"
>   key_pair_name           = "myweb"
>   user_data               = "${data.template_file.init_script.rendered}"
>
>   tags = {
>         Site = "myweb.com"
>     }
> }
>
> resource "aws_lightsail_static_ip_attachment" "myweb" {
>   static_ip_name = "${aws_lightsail_static_ip.myweb.name}"
>   instance_name  = "${aws_lightsail_instance.myweb.name}"
> }
> EOF

Output our allocated and attached static IP after creation:

$ cat << 'EOF' > output.tf
> output "static_public_ip" {
>   value = "${aws_lightsail_static_ip.myweb.ip_address}"
> }
> EOF

Create a template file to reference a run-once on boot user_data script:

$ cat << 'EOF' > install.tf
> data "template_file" "init_script" {
>   template = "${file("scripts/install.sh")}"
> }
> EOF

Create the shell script for user_data:

$ cat << 'EOF' > scripts/install.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> MY_HOME="/home/ubuntu"
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
>
> # Install prereqs
> apt update
> apt install -y python3-pip apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
> # Install docker
> curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
> add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
> apt update
> apt install -y docker-ce
> # Install docker-compose
> su ubuntu -c "mkdir -p $MY_HOME/.local/bin"
> su ubuntu -c "pip3 install docker-compose --upgrade --user && chmod 754 $MY_HOME/.local/bin/docker-compose"
> usermod -aG docker ubuntu
> # Add PATH
> printf "\nexport PATH=\$PATH:$MY_HOME/.local/bin\n" >> $MY_HOME/.bashrc
>
> exit 0
> EOF

Initialize the directory:

$ terraform init

Run a dry-run to see what will occur:

$ terraform plan

Provision:

$ terraform apply -auto-approve

Log on to the instance (up to ~30 seconds may be needed for the attachment of the static IP to the instance):

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/myweb ubuntu@<The value of static_public_ip that was reported.  One can also use 'terraform output static_public_ip' to print it again.>

Type yes and hit enter to accept.

On the host (a short while is needed for the run-once script to complete):

$ docker --version
$ docker-compose --version
$ logout

Tear down what was created by first performing a dry-run to see what will occur:

$ terraform plan -destroy 

Tear down the instance:

$ terraform destroy -auto-approve

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References:

Source:
terraform_aws_myweb

Docker – Launch a Containerized Web Server and a PHP Processor

In this article we will use docker compose to spin up two containers. One will run a web server (Nginx) and one will run php-fpm (Hypertext Preprocessor FastCGI Process Manager). All requests for .php will be forwarded on to the php-fpm service for processing which is running in a separate container and be presented by Nginx. We will use images based off of Alpine which is a minimal Linux environment with a small footprint.

Please go through aws-azure-development-environment-setup-for-containerization prior to commencing with this article.

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Change directory in to the dev/docker path located within your home directory:

$ cd ~/dev/docker

Create a directory called myweb and go in to it:

$ mkdir myweb && cd myweb

Create five directories called nginx, nginx/conf, php-fpm, src and src/web:

$ mkdir -p nginx/conf php-fpm -p src/web

Create a docker-compose.yml file like so:

$ cat << 'EOF' > docker-compose.yml
> version: '3'
>
> services:
>     nginx:
>         image: myweb-nginx:v1
>         build: ./nginx
>         volumes:
>             - ./src/web:/var/www/html
>         ports:
>             - 80:80
>         depends_on:
>             - php-fpm
>
>     php-fpm:
>         image: myweb-php-fpm:v1
>         build: ./php-fpm
>         volumes:
>             - ./src/web:/var/www/html
> EOF

This sets the version to 3 for docker-compose and sets up two services called nginx and php-fpm. It will build what is inside each folder, overlay src/web in to them (so you can work independently on the content without rebuilding the container) and map port 80 (HTTP) to the inside HTTP/80 port. Nginx requires php-fpm so you denote that with a depends_on; this service will start first. The ‘image:’ will name and tag this accordingly on the docker images.

Create a Dockerfile inside nginx:

$ cat << 'EOF' > nginx/Dockerfile
> FROM nginx:stable-alpine
> COPY ./conf/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d
> EOF

Create a default.conf inside nginx/conf:

$ cat << 'EOF' > nginx/conf/default.conf
> server {
>    index index.php;
>    server_name "";
>    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
>    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
>    root /var/www/html;
>
>    location ~\.php$ {
>        try_files $uri =404;
>        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
>        fastcgi_pass php-fpm:9000;
>        fastcgi_index index.php;
>        include fastcgi_params;
>        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
>    }
> }
> EOF

This will pull the stable Nginx docker image based off of Alpine and copy our default.conf in to the container. The default.conf sets up the web server to forward .php over to our container which is called ‘php-fpm’ on the default port of 9000 and sets the default index page as index.php.

Create a Dockerfile inside php-fpm:

$ cat << 'EOF' > php-fpm/Dockerfile
> FROM php:7.3-fpm-alpine
> EOF

This will pull the php-fpm 7.3 docker image based off of Alpine.

Create a index.php in src/web:

$ cat << 'EOF' > src/web/index.php
> <html>
>  <head>
>   <title>Hello World - PHP Test</title>
>  </head>
>  <body>
>   <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
>  </body>
> </html>
> EOF

Now build both containers/launch both services and send in to non-interactive mode:

$ docker-compose up -d

Now use curl to make a request:

$ curl http://localhost

You should see:

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Hello World - PHP Test</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>Hello World</p>
 </body>
</html>

You can see the containers running by typing:

$ docker ps

You can list the containers:

$ docker container ls

You can stop the containers:

$ docker-compose stop

You can remove the containers:

$ docker-compose down

You can list the images:

$ docker images

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References:

Source:
docker_myweb