aadesh-bhardwaj / terraform-aws-keypair

Terraform Module to create an EC2 SSH keypair on AWS and save the private key to SSM Parameter Store

AWS EC2 Keypair

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Terraform module which creates EC2 key pair on AWS. The private key will be stored in AWS Systems Manager's Parameter Store.

Usage Example

module "key_pair" {
  source = "squareops/keypair/aws"

  environment        = "production"
  key_name           = "example-key"
  ssm_parameter_path = "production-example-key"
}

Refer this for more examples.

Retrieve Private Key

To Retrieve the Private key from SSM:

aws ssm get-parameter --region=us-east-1 --name "production-example-key" --with-decryption --output text --query Parameter.Value

Additionally, to save the private to a file:

aws ssm get-parameter --region=us-east-1 --name "production-example-key" --with-decryption --output text --query Parameter.Value > private-key.pem

IAM Permission

The required IAM permissions to create resources from this module can be found here

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 1.0
aws	>= 4.21
tls	>= 3.4

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 4.21

Modules

Name	Source	Version
key_pair	terraform-aws-modules/key-pair/aws	2.0.0

Resources

Name	Type
aws_ssm_parameter.ssm_ec2_keypair	resource

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
environment	Environment identifier for the key pair	string	""	no
key_name	The name for the key pair to be generated	string	""	no
ssm_parameter_path	The name of the ssm parameter for storing the keypair	string	"/example/ssm"	no

Outputs

Name	Description
key_pair_name	The key pair name.
ssm_parameter_arn	The SSM parameter ARN of key pair.

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License

Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/).

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