Amazon Web Services

Prerequisites

Download and install Terraform.

Verify the installation using the terraform command.

$ terraform

You should see output similar to the following.

Usage: terraform [--version] [--help] <command> [args]
...
Common commands:
    apply              Builds or changes infrastructure
    console            Interactive console for Terraform interpolations
    destroy            Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure
    env                Workspace management
    fmt                Rewrites config files to canonical format

Create a Terraform configuration file

Create a Terraform configuration file called yugabyte-db-config.tf and add the following details to it. The Terraform module can be found in the terraform-aws-yugabyte GitHub repository.

provider "aws" {
  # Configure your AWS account credentials here.
  access_key = "ACCESS_KEY_HERE"
  secret_key = "SECRET_KEY_HERE"
  region     = "us-west-2"
}

module "yugabyte-db-cluster" {
  # The source module used for creating AWS clusters.
  source = "github.com/Yugabyte/terraform-aws-yugabyte"

  # The name of the cluster to be created, change as per need.
  cluster_name = "test-cluster"

  # Existing custom security group to be passed so that you can connect to the instances.
  # Make sure this security group allows your local machine to SSH into these instances.
  custom_security_group_id="SECURITY_GROUP_HERE"

  # AWS key pair that you want to use to ssh into the instances.
  # Make sure this key pair is already present in the noted region of your account.
  ssh_keypair = "SSH_KEYPAIR_HERE"
  ssh_private_key = "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH_HERE"

  # Existing vpc and subnet ids where the instances should be spawned.
  vpc_id = "VPC_ID_HERE"
  subnet_ids = ["SUBNET_ID_HERE"]

  # Replication factor of the YugabyteDB cluster.
  replication_factor = "3"

  # The number of nodes in the cluster, this cannot be lower than the replication factor.
  num_instances = "3"
  
  # The AWS region for the cluster to be created
  region_name = "REGION_NAME_HERE"

  # The availability zones for the instances, the length
  # of AZs must match num_instances and can contain duplicates.
  availability_zones = ["AZ1_HERE", "AZ2_HERE", "AZ3_HERE"]
}

If you do not have a custom security group, you would need to remove the ${var.custom_security_group_id} variable in main.tf, so that the aws_instance looks as follows:

resource "aws_instance" "yugabyte_nodes" {
  count                       = "${var.num_instances}"
  ...
  vpc_security_group_ids      = [
    "${aws_security_group.yugabyte.id}",
    "${aws_security_group.yugabyte_intra.id}",
    "${var.custom_security_group_id}"
  ]

Create a cluster

Init terraform first if you have not already done so.

$ terraform init

Run the following to create the instances and bring up the cluster:

$ terraform apply

After the cluster is created, you can go to the URL http://<node ip or dns name>:7000 to view the UI. You can find the node's IP or DNS by running the following:

$ terraform state show aws_instance.yugabyte_nodes[0]

You can check the state of the nodes at any point by running the following command:

$ terraform show

Verify resources created

The following resources are created by this module:

module.yugabyte-db-cluster.aws_instance.yugabyte_nodes

The AWS instances.

For a cluster named test-cluster, the instances are named yb-ce-test-cluster-n1, yb-ce-test-cluster-n2, yb-ce-test-cluster-n3.
module.yugabyte-db-cluster.aws_security_group.yugabyte

The security group that allows the various clients to access the YugabyteDB cluster.

For a cluster named test-cluster, this security group is named yb-ce-test-cluster, with the ports 7000, 9000, 9042, and 6379 open to all other instances in the same security group.
module.yugabyte-db-cluster.aws_security_group.yugabyte_intra

The security group that allows communication internal to the cluster.

For a cluster named test-cluster, this security group is named yb-ce-test-cluster-intra with the ports 7100, 9100 open to all other instances in the same security group.
module.yugabyte-db-cluster.null_resource.create_yugabyte_universe A local script that configures the newly created instances to form a new YugabyteDB universe.

[Optional] Destroy the cluster

To destroy what you just created, you can run the following command:

$ terraform destroy