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     1  # Basic Two-Tier AWS Architecture
     2  
     3  This provides a template for running a simple two-tier architecture on Amazon
     4  Web services. The premise is that you have stateless app servers running behind
     5  an ELB serving traffic.
     6  
     7  To simplify the example, this intentionally ignores deploying and
     8  getting your application onto the servers. However, you could do so either via
     9  [provisioners](https://www.terraform.io/docs/provisioners/) and a configuration
    10  management tool, or by pre-baking configured AMIs with
    11  [Packer](http://www.packer.io).
    12  
    13  This example will also create a new EC2 Key Pair in the specified AWS Region. 
    14  The key name and path to the public key must be specified via the  
    15  terraform command vars.
    16  
    17  After you run `terraform apply` on this configuration, it will
    18  automatically output the DNS address of the ELB. After your instance
    19  registers, this should respond with the default nginx web page.
    20  
    21  To run, configure your AWS provider as described in 
    22  
    23  https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
    24  
    25  Run with a command like this:
    26  
    27  ```
    28  terraform apply -var 'key_name={your_aws_key_name}' \
    29     -var 'public_key_path={location_of_your_key_in_your_local_machine}'
    30  ```
    31  
    32  For example:
    33  
    34  ```
    35  terraform apply -var 'key_name=terraform' -var 'public_key_path=/Users/jsmith/.ssh/terraform.pub'
    36  ```