terraform-ec2-ssm

Sets up an EC2 workstation with CentOS 7 (x86_64) in ap-southeast-2

Setup

Remote State

Ensure using S3 remote state

export accountId=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)
terraform init \
    -backend-config="region=ap-southeast-2" \
    -backend-config="bucket=terraform-state-${accountId}" \
    -backend-config="key=terraform.tfstate" \
    -backend-config="dynamodb_table=terraform-state"

Local State

If you don't want to sync your state remotely just:

terraform init

Deploy

terraform plan
terraform apply

It will run and spit out the EC2 instance ID

Connect to EC2 with SSM Session Manager

Install Session Manager plugin for AWS CLI first.

Start the session using the output instance_id

aws ssm start-session \
    --document-name ec2-workstation \
    --target i-053cc3cc379ef0069