In this project, we'll create an EC2 instance in a VPC with a security group. A user data file will do the following actions:

• Rename the server

• Set the DNS address

• Set time zone

• Install Active Directory Domain Services

• Promoting Server to Domain Controller

• Install and configure the DHCP role.

Here's the summary architecture.

It's assumed that you have configured your AWS CLI. Also you have to give several values to variables, perhaps in a terraform.tfvars. Here is an example of the content of this file:

access_ip = "youripaddress"

key_name = "key_name_you_have_created"

private_ip = "30.0.20.20"

ServerName = "SRVADDS01"

DomainName = "your_project"

ForestMode = "Win2012R2"

DomainMode = "Win2012R2"

DatabasePath = "C:\\ADDS\\NTDS"

SYSVOLPath = "C:\\ADDS\\SYSVOL"

LogPath = "C:\\ADDS\\Logs"

Password = "terraform2020"

AdminSafeModePassword = "Secureterraform2020"

TimeZoneID = "Eastern Standard Time"

Deploy the code:

terraform init

terraform apply

Clean up when you're done:

terraform destroy

**Improvements: **

• Use ansible for configuration

• Secure different passwords