Amazon Web Services EC2 instances provide a ubiquitous platform to quickly spin up Linux servers for any purpose, including a MongoDB cluster. The HashiCorp Terraform provisioning tool makes it easy to automate build and teardown of servers in a consistent and repeatable way. This blog entry will work through simple Terraform code to build servers…
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Build a Disposable AWS VPC with Terraform
Consistent with the concepts of disposable infrastructure, we want to build an isolated VPC within our existing AWS account to isolate experiments with infrastructure-as-code. Using Terraform by HashiCorp, we can build and tear down the VPC structures easily, quickly, and consistently. This base automation can make it easier to identify any AWS objects contained with…