Perfoce Cloud Deployment

AWS

Requirements

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• aws CLI

Install Packer Ansible Terraform

Packer:

Installation Guide Packer

Terraform:

Installation Guide Terraform

Ansible:

python -m -venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install ansible

Setup AWS CLI

To configure your aws cli run

aws configure 

Afterwards insert your credentials. This should look like:

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]:  <Your AWS ACCESS KEY>    
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <Your AWS Secret Access Key>
Default region name [us-west-2]: <Region you want operate in>
Default output format [json]: <Output format of CLI>

create a new role in ~/.aws/config

[profile your profile name] region = your region output = json

Build the AWS AMI

Run packer with a Makefile command

make packer-build

Init Terraform

Run terraform plan to validate the script and see the changes terraform intends to perform

make terraform-init

Apply Terraform

Run terraform apply to setup the infrastructure with AWS, this command is going to prompt you. Type yes to actually deploy the VMs

make terraform-apply

Using preconfigured SSH via Hostfile template

To use the generated ssh-config file you have to either

1. use the connect make command
2. move the config file to the specific location ~/.ssh/config

Connect to the Perfoce Instance:

make connect

or use the following command to move the file and overwrite the old ssh-config:

move-ssh-config-to-ssh-directory

Provision the running ec2 instance

make provisioning

for a more verbose provisioning use:

make provisioning-verbose

Additional Information

The .pem file needs to have a specific permission. AWS is going to complain if the file doesn't meet the required permission.

chmod 400 <name of keypair pem file>.pem