AWS Capstone Project 1 - WebServer setup - Windows Linux

 AWS Terraform Assignment – Lab 

Scope 

A Lab to host a simple web application on Linux OR Windows EC2 instances, take screenshot of key outputs, upload it the repo. 

Problem Statement 

Requirement #1 

• Create a VPC with Internet Gateway, a set of public & private subnets in 3 availability zones 

• Define a Security Group for all the 3 EC2 instances 

• Setup 3 EC2 instances - Linux OR Windows on public subnet with Apache/Nginx OR IIS configured on port 80  

• Add a 2GB EBS volume per instance. 

• Ensure the default index.html page is accessible. Index.html should show the IP address of the instance serving request. 

• Setup an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic to the 3 instances servers in a round-robin fashion which means that requests to the Application Load Balancer on port 80 will get re-directed to the 3 different servers. 

• Validate website is being served over ALB public DNS 

Important Note:  You may either create both the instances of Linux or both of Windows 

 

 

  

 
Requirement #2 (Enhancement after finishing Requirement #1) 

 

• Create an AMI out of Linux /Windows EC2 Instances (Note: This step can be done manually. This AMI will be used for the next steps in setting up autoscaling using terraform) 

• Modify the existing TF code to create Launch Configurations with the AMIs created in previous step with the same instance specification as in RFE #1 

• Modify the existing TF code to create Auto Scaling Group (ASG) with the above Launch Configurations to scale in when CPU > 80% and scale out when CPU < 80% 

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Requirement #3 (Enhancement after finishing Requirement #2) 

 

• Create a CloudFront distribution -> WebDistribution and point to ALB public endpoint 

 

Services to be used 

• EC2 - Linux & Windows, EBS, ALB, ASG, S3, VPC, CloudFront 

• Add anything else needed.           

 

Tools needed 

Install these tools before the start of the event 

• IDE ( VS Code, Intellj, Atom) – as per your preference 

• GIT CLI 

• Terraform CLI7 

Github Repo: https://github.com/<your repo>

Folder Structure    

• Web101-<FirstName>-<SecondName>  

•     TerraformCode 
     [Please add Requirement 1, 2 or 3 in the commit message. Its fine if you commit more than once for a requirement] 

• Commit 1 – Requirement 1 

• Commit 2 – Requirement 2 

• Commit 3 – Requirement 3 

•       Output  

• Screenshots for Requirement 1 

• Screenshots for Requirement 2 

• Screenshots for Requirement 3 

 
 

Result 

• Write the terraform code for all the pieces (exception: AMI creation in Req #2 can be manual) 

• Have a gitignore file to ignore .tfstate files and .terraform directory 

• Run the Terraform code to provision resources in the AWS Account 

• Execute the terraform code and take screenshots of key services / outputs. 

• Take full browser screenshot with SSO Login / email on the top right corner of AWS Console. 

 

 

FAQs 

• Duration 

• 3 hours once they start. 

• For the interns taking this test remotely, Session to be screen shared and recorded. HR to initiate the call, start recording and exit.