AWS Bootstrap

Bootstrap a minimal self-hosted Terraform setup on an AWS account, using CloudFormation stack.

Part of the rustshop project.

Explanation

When called like this:

aws-bootstrap --email infra@example.com --base example --accounts dev,prod

with AWS_PROFILE pointing to an iamadmin Account Admin IAM identity on, will:

• create a AWS Organinzation (if needed):
  • create two (sub-)accounts:
    • example-dev (email: infra+dev@example.com)
    • example-prod (email: infra+prod@example.com)
• in each account deploy a minimal CloudFormation stack including:
  • S3 Bucket for Terraform State
  • S3 Bucket for CloudWatch Logs
  • Minimal (thus drit cheap) DynamoDB for Terraform State locking
  • some minimal policies, etc.

Requirements:

• Uses aws CLI command under the hood

Building

You can use ./aws-bootstrap.build.sh to build the Dockerfile an export the statically linked Linux binary.

This is a normal Rust project, so can be build using cargo.