What is this?

• This is a repo for my Terraform config for Oracle Cloud
• This config automatically does the following:
  • Spins up an instance of Ubuntu Server using the Always Free tier
  • Triggers Ansible to
    • Automate patching
    • Install Docker
    • Install Traefik reverse proxy
    • Install Filebrowser behind the reverse proxy

Requirements

• Linux machine to run this from (WSL works on Windows)
• Terraform
• Ansible
• OCI-CLI
• Oracle Terraform docs for reference

Getting started

• You need to be running from some kind of Linux terminal
• I did this in WSL 2 with Ubuntu, so that works if you need something
• Start by cloning this repo

git clone https://github.com/USBAkimbo/terraform-oci
cd terraform-oci

• Initialize Terraform

terraform init

• Copy the example vars file

cp tfvars.example terraform.tfvars

• Modify the terraform.tfvars file to include your Oracle account variables and Cloudflare variables
• Modify ansible-config.yml to include your email and the dns hostname for your Filebrowser
• My example uses my Ansible Vault strings
• You can do this using

ansible-vault encrypt_string yourstringhere
<enter vault password>
!vault |
          $ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256
          62343563353836383962376363393931343961316331343564653939303030356638386136666562
          3161653562333736313162623630626538646264643035350a623939623532346462353432316231
          63393762333435613833306136633761323932336539623462353733636335383235653162616562
          6261386236303631310a376536303333643338663136323031613662343038663765656530313061
          6264

• You don't have to use vault, so your file could look like this

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - patch
    - install-docker
    - install-traefik
    - install-filebrowser
  vars:
    email: [email protected]
    dns_name: filebrowser-cloud.mydomain.com

• Once this is all done, run the following to start the build

terraform apply

• Note that this will probably fail for the first time on the Ansible step
• This is because the VM probably isn't ready just yet
• If it does fail, just re-run the command again
• That should be it! Give it a few minutes and your site should be accessible at https://filebrowser-cloud.yourdomain.com