2. Setup AWS Account

Steps to setup the AWS account for deployment

Topics covered:

• Pre-requisites to setting up the AWS account

• Get access to the AWS account

Overview

Follow the details below to set up your AWS account before you proceed with the DIGIT deployment.

Get AWS Access

Public Users

• Sign up for the AWS account if you do not already have one. Use this link to get started

• Assign Administrator Access to the IAM user for necessary permissions.

• Use the AWS IAM User credentials provided for the Terraform (Infra-as-code) to connect with your AWS account and provision the cloud resources.

• The system will generate a Secret Access Key and Access Key ID. Save the keys.

• Open the terminal. Run the following command you have installed on the AWS CLI and use the credentials. (Provide the credentials and leave the region and output format blank).

Note: Make sure the profile name provided in the commands below is also used in the Terraform scripts same as the AWS profile.

aws configure --profile digit-quickstart-poc 

AWS Access Key ID []:<Your access key>
AWS Secret Access Key []:<Your secret key>
Default region name []: ap-south-1
Default output format []: text

// Setting profile
export AWS_PROFILE=digit-quickstart-poc

• The above will create the following file in your machine under the user home directory. /path/to/user/home/.aws/credentials

[digit-quickstart-poc] 
aws_access_key_id=*********** 
aws_secret_access_key=*************************

Once the command line access is configured, everything is set to proceed with the terraform to provision the DIGIT Infra-as-code.