github.com/bengesoff/terraform@v0.3.1-0.20141018223233-b25a53629922/website/source/intro/examples/aws.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "intro" 3 page_title: "Basic Two-Tier AWS Architecture" 4 sidebar_current: "examples-aws" 5 --- 6 7 # Basic Two-Tier AWS Architecture 8 9 [**Example Contents**](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/tree/master/examples/aws-two-tier) 10 11 This provides a template for running a simple two-tier architecture on Amazon 12 Web services. The premise is that you have stateless app servers running behind 13 an ELB serving traffic. 14 15 To simplify the example, this intentionally ignores deploying and 16 getting your application onto the servers. However, you could do so either via 17 [provisioners](/docs/provisioners/index.html) and a configuration 18 management tool, or by pre-baking configured AMIs with 19 [Packer](http://www.packer.io). 20 21 After you run `terraform apply` on this configuration, it will 22 automatically output the DNS address of the ELB. After your instance 23 registers, this should respond with the default nginx web page. 24 25 As with all examples, just copy and paste the example and run 26 `terraform apply` to see it work.