github.com/jsoriano/terraform@v0.6.7-0.20151026070445-8b70867fdd95/examples/aws-two-tier/README.md (about)

     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  After you run `terraform apply` on this configuration, it will
    14  automatically output the DNS address of the ELB. After your instance
    15  registers, this should respond with the default nginx web page.
    16  
    17  To run, configure your AWS provider as described in 
    18  
    19  https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
    20  
    21  Run with a command like this:
    22  
    23  ```
    24  terraform apply -var 'key_name={your_aws_key_name}' \
    25     -var 'key_path={location_of_your_key_in_your_local_machine}'` 
    26  ```
    27  
    28  For example:
    29  
    30  ```
    31  terraform apply -var 'key_name=terraform' -var 'key_path=/Users/jsmith/.ssh/terraform.pem'
    32  ```