Puppet & AWS AutoScalingGroup Proof of concept

This repo is a proof of concept on knitting together the following technologies, which intends see "services", rather than "servers", in an automated fashion.

• Puppet 6 & Hiera 5
• Puppet control-repo w/ roles & profiles
• puppetlabs/r10k
• AWS AutoScaling Groups
• Terraform (0.12.x)

Deployment Procedure

1. Create an ssh key pair for puppet to access Github, see ssh-key.md

2. Ensure you have aws creds in your ~/.aws/credentials file. We'll be using the default credentials

3. Deploy puppet server

   1. cd terraform/05-puppetserver
   2. terraform plan
   3. terraform apply

4. Deploy the sample app

   1. cd terraform/10-appserver
   2. terraform plan
   3. terraform apply

Credits

• govuk/aws
• govuk/puppet
• puppetlabs/control-repo