Components used

Terraform - To provision Infra

Packer - To create base image

Cloudfront - Content Delivery

Autoscaling - To scale automatically

S3 - For static Content

Packer configuration

1. Update the AWS access Key and Secret key in the packer_build.json file in packer/ folder
2. Run "packer build packer_build.json"
3. Desired output will be an AWS image that has: a. Tomcat Installed b. Copied companyNews.war to /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps c. Start the tomcat service

Terraform Configuration

1. Update the AWS access Key and Secret Key in the Provider.tf file in TW_Assignment folder
2. Run "terraform init" "terraform plan" "terraform apply -auto-approve"
3. Check the provisioned infra