Project 5: Host a Dynamic Web Application on AWS with Terraform and EC2 (Part 3)

🗓️ Date: 12/13/2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM EST (U.S. – New York Time) 🎙️ Instructor: Azeez Salu 💻 Level: Intermediate → Advanced ⏱️ Duration: ~4 hours (with live Q&A) 🟢 Goal Learn how to deploy and manage a production-ready, database-driven web application on AWS using Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling version-controlled, repeatable, and collaborative infrastructure deployments. 🧱 Session Outline 1️⃣ Architecture Overview Review Project 2 architecture and introduce Infrastructure as Code with Terraform 2️⃣ Terraform Setup 🔹 Project folder structure and file organization 🔹 Configure AWS provider with region and default tags 🔹 Set up S3 backend with DynamoDB state locking 3️⃣ VPC & Networking 🔹 Create VPC with DNS hostnames enabled 🔹 Create Internet Gateway 🔹 Create public and private subnets across 2 AZs 🔹 Configure route tables and associations 4️⃣ NAT Gateway 🔹 Create Elastic IP and NAT Gateway 🔹 Configure private route table for outbound access 5️⃣ Security Groups 🔹 Create security groups for EICE, ALB, App Servers, Data Migration, and RDS 🔹 Configure proper ingress and egress rules 6️⃣ EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint 🔹 Create EICE for secure SSH access to private instances 7️⃣ Secrets Manager 🔹 Reference existing secret using data source 🔹 Parse secret JSON with jsondecode() 8️⃣ RDS Database 🔹 Create DB subnet group 🔹 Deploy MySQL RDS instance with credentials from Secrets Manager 9️⃣ IAM Role 🔹 Create IAM role with EC2 trust policy 🔹 Attach S3 access policy and create instance profile 🔟 ACM & SSL 🔹 Request ACM certificate with DNS validation 🔹 Create Route 53 validation records 1️⃣1️⃣ Application Load Balancer 🔹 Create ALB with target group 🔹 Configure HTTP to HTTPS redirect 🔹 Set up HTTPS listener with ACM certificate 1️⃣2️⃣ Route 53 🔹 Create A record alias pointing to ALB 1️⃣3️⃣ SNS Notifications 🔹 Create SNS topic and email subscription for scaling alerts 1️⃣4️⃣ Auto Scaling Group 🔹 Create launch template with user data script 🔹 Use templatefile() function for variable injection 🔹 Deploy ASG across private subnets 🔹 Attach to ALB target group 1️⃣5️⃣ Data Migration 🔹 Create EC2 instance for database migration 🔹 Configure migration script with templatefile() 1️⃣6️⃣ Deploy & Validate 🔹 Run terraform plan and terraform apply 🔹 Verify application via custom domain 1️⃣7️⃣ Wrap-Up & Q&A End-to-end review, Terraform best practices, and live Q&A 💡 Skills You'll Learn ✅ Terraform fundamentals and syntax ✅ Provider and backend configuration ✅ Variables, locals, and outputs ✅ Data sources and resource references ✅ Templatefile function for user data scripts ✅ Implicit and explicit dependencies (depends_on) ✅ Remote state management with S3 and DynamoDB ✅ Multi-tier AWS architecture with Terraform ✅ Security group configuration in Terraform ✅ ACM certificate DNS validation with for_each ✅ Auto Scaling Group with launch templates ✅ Infrastructure as Code best practices ☁️ AWS Services Covered VPC • Subnets • Internet Gateway • NAT Gateway • Route Tables • Security Groups • EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint • Secrets Manager • RDS (MySQL) • IAM Roles & Instance Profiles • ACM • Application Load Balancer • Target Groups • Route 53 • SNS • Auto Scaling Group • S3 (Backend) • DynamoDB (State Locking) 🛠️ Terraform Concepts Covered Providers • Backend • Resources • Data Sources • Variables • Locals • Outputs • Dependencies • Lifecycle • Templatefile • For_each • Remote State 🧠 Real-World Use Cases ✅ Infrastructure as Code for version-controlled deployments ✅ Multi-environment deployments (dev, staging, prod) ✅ Team collaboration with remote state ✅ Disaster recovery with infrastructure code ✅ Cost management through easy environment teardown ✅ Audit and compliance through version control ✅ Enterprise DevOps workflows 🧰 Before You Join ✅ Complete Projects 1-4 or have AWS networking and EC2 knowledge ✅ AWS Free Tier account ready ✅ Terraform installed locally ✅ AWS CLI installed and configured ✅ Basic understanding of infrastructure concepts ✅ Code editor (VS Code recommended with Terraform extension) 🔔 Don't Miss It! 📅 Saturday, [Date] @ 11 AM EST ✅ Click "Notify Me" ✅ Subscribe & share with your network #AWS #Terraform #DevOps #CloudComputing #AzeezSalu #InfrastructureAsCode #IaC #EC2 #RDS #ALB #AutoScaling #Route53 #VPC #CloudNative #YouTubeLive