Terraform module to create an ALB, default ALB listener(s), and a default ALB target and related security groups.
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provider "aws" {
region = var.region
}
module "vpc" {
source = "cloudposse/vpc/aws"
# Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
# version = "x.x.x"
namespace = var.namespace
stage = var.stage
name = var.name
delimiter = var.delimiter
attributes = var.attributes
ipv4_primary_cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"
assign_generated_ipv6_cidr_block = true
tags = var.tags
}
module "subnets" {
source = "cloudposse/dynamic-subnets/aws"
# Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
# version = "x.x.x"
namespace = var.namespace
stage = var.stage
name = var.name
attributes = var.attributes
delimiter = var.delimiter
availability_zones = var.availability_zones
vpc_id = module.vpc.vpc_id
igw_id = module.vpc.igw_id
cidr_block = module.vpc.vpc_cidr_block
nat_gateway_enabled = false
nat_instance_enabled = false
tags = var.tags
}
module "alb" {
source = "cloudposse/alb/aws"
# Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
# version = "x.x.x"
namespace = var.namespace
stage = var.stage
name = var.name
attributes = var.attributes
delimiter = var.delimiter
vpc_id = module.vpc.vpc_id
security_group_ids = [module.vpc.vpc_default_security_group_id]
subnet_ids = module.subnets.public_subnet_ids
internal = var.internal
http_enabled = var.http_enabled
http_redirect = var.http_redirect
access_logs_enabled = var.access_logs_enabled
cross_zone_load_balancing_enabled = var.cross_zone_load_balancing_enabled
http2_enabled = var.http2_enabled
idle_timeout = var.idle_timeout
ip_address_type = var.ip_address_type
deletion_protection_enabled = var.deletion_protection_enabled
deregistration_delay = var.deregistration_delay
health_check_path = var.health_check_path
health_check_timeout = var.health_check_timeout
health_check_healthy_threshold = var.health_check_healthy_threshold
health_check_unhealthy_threshold = var.health_check_unhealthy_threshold
health_check_interval = var.health_check_interval
health_check_matcher = var.health_check_matcher
target_group_port = var.target_group_port
target_group_target_type = var.target_group_target_type
stickiness = var.stickiness
alb_access_logs_s3_bucket_force_destroy = var.alb_access_logs_s3_bucket_force_destroy
alb_access_logs_s3_bucket_force_destroy_enabled = var.alb_access_logs_s3_bucket_force_destroy_enabled
tags = var.tags
}
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Name | Version |
---|---|
terraform | >= 1.3 |
aws | >= 5.46 |
Name | Version |
---|---|
aws | >= 5.46 |
Name | Source | Version |
---|---|---|
access_logs | cloudposse/lb-s3-bucket/aws | 0.19.0 |
default_load_balancer_label | cloudposse/label/null | 0.25.0 |
default_target_group_label | cloudposse/label/null | 0.25.0 |
this | cloudposse/label/null | 0.25.0 |
Name | Type |
---|---|
aws_lb.default | resource |
aws_lb_listener.http_forward | resource |
aws_lb_listener.http_redirect | resource |
aws_lb_listener.https | resource |
aws_lb_listener_certificate.https_sni | resource |
aws_lb_target_group.default | resource |
aws_security_group.default | resource |
aws_security_group_rule.egress | resource |
aws_security_group_rule.http_ingress | resource |
aws_security_group_rule.https_ingress | resource |
Name | Description | Type | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
access_logs_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable access_logs | bool |
true |
no |
access_logs_prefix | The S3 log bucket prefix | string |
"" |
no |
access_logs_s3_bucket_id | An external S3 Bucket name to store access logs in. If specified, no logging bucket will be created. | string |
null |
no |
additional_certs | A list of additonal certs to add to the https listerner | list(string) |
[] |
no |
additional_tag_map | Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps . Not added to tags or id .This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration. |
map(string) |
{} |
no |
alb_access_logs_s3_bucket_force_destroy | A boolean that indicates all objects should be deleted from the ALB access logs S3 bucket so that the bucket can be destroyed without error | bool |
false |
no |
allow_ssl_requests_only | Set to true to require requests to use Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS/SSL) on the access logs S3 bucket. This will explicitly deny access to HTTP requests | bool |
false |
no |
attributes | ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster ) to add to id ,in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter and treated as a single ID element. |
list(string) |
[] |
no |
certificate_arn | The ARN of the default SSL certificate for HTTPS listener | string |
"" |
no |
client_keep_alive | Client keep alive value in seconds. The valid range is 60-604800 seconds. The default is 3600 seconds. | number |
3600 |
no |
context | Single object for setting entire context at once. See description of individual variables for details. Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object, except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged. |
any |
{ |
no |
cross_zone_load_balancing_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable cross zone load balancing | bool |
true |
no |
default_target_group_enabled | Whether the default target group should be created or not. | bool |
true |
no |
deletion_protection_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable deletion protection for ALB | bool |
false |
no |
delimiter | Delimiter to be used between ID elements. Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all. |
string |
null |
no |
deregistration_delay | The amount of time to wait in seconds before changing the state of a deregistering target to unused | number |
15 |
no |
descriptor_formats | Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form {<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>} (Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will beidentical to how they appear in id .Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty). |
any |
{} |
no |
drop_invalid_header_fields | Indicates whether HTTP headers with header fields that are not valid are removed by the load balancer (true) or routed to targets (false). | bool |
false |
no |
enable_glacier_transition | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Enables the transition to AWS Glacier which can cause unnecessary costs for huge amount of small files |
bool |
true |
no |
enabled | Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources | bool |
null |
no |
environment | ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' | string |
null |
no |
expiration_days | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Number of days after which to expunge the objects |
number |
90 |
no |
glacier_transition_days | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Number of days after which to move the data to the Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage tier |
number |
60 |
no |
health_check_healthy_threshold | The number of consecutive health checks successes required before considering an unhealthy target healthy | number |
2 |
no |
health_check_interval | The duration in seconds in between health checks | number |
15 |
no |
health_check_matcher | The HTTP response codes to indicate a healthy check | string |
"200-399" |
no |
health_check_path | The destination for the health check request | string |
"/" |
no |
health_check_port | The port to use for the healthcheck | string |
"traffic-port" |
no |
health_check_protocol | The protocol to use for the healthcheck. If not specified, same as the traffic protocol | string |
null |
no |
health_check_timeout | The amount of time to wait in seconds before failing a health check request | number |
10 |
no |
health_check_unhealthy_threshold | The number of consecutive health check failures required before considering the target unhealthy | number |
2 |
no |
http2_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable HTTP/2 | bool |
true |
no |
http_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable HTTP listener | bool |
true |
no |
http_ingress_cidr_blocks | List of CIDR blocks to allow in HTTP security group | list(string) |
[ |
no |
http_ingress_prefix_list_ids | List of prefix list IDs for allowing access to HTTP ingress security group | list(string) |
[] |
no |
http_port | The port for the HTTP listener | number |
80 |
no |
http_redirect | A boolean flag to enable/disable HTTP redirect to HTTPS | bool |
false |
no |
https_enabled | A boolean flag to enable/disable HTTPS listener | bool |
false |
no |
https_ingress_cidr_blocks | List of CIDR blocks to allow in HTTPS security group | list(string) |
[ |
no |
https_ingress_prefix_list_ids | List of prefix list IDs for allowing access to HTTPS ingress security group | list(string) |
[] |
no |
https_port | The port for the HTTPS listener | number |
443 |
no |
https_ssl_policy | The name of the SSL Policy for the listener | string |
"ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS13-1-2-2021-06" |
no |
id_length_limit | Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).Set to 0 for unlimited length.Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0 .Does not affect id_full . |
number |
null |
no |
idle_timeout | The time in seconds that the connection is allowed to be idle | number |
60 |
no |
internal | A boolean flag to determine whether the ALB should be internal | bool |
false |
no |
ip_address_type | The type of IP addresses used by the subnets for your load balancer. The possible values are ipv4 and dualstack . |
string |
"ipv4" |
no |
label_key_case | Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.Possible values: lower , title , upper .Default value: title . |
string |
null |
no |
label_order | The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id .Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"]. You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present. |
list(string) |
null |
no |
label_value_case | Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id ,set as tag values, and output by this module individually. Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.Possible values: lower , title , upper and none (no transformation).Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.Default value: lower . |
string |
null |
no |
labels_as_tags | Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.Default is to include all labels. Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.Notes: The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id , not the name .Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot bechanged in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored. |
set(string) |
[ |
no |
lifecycle_configuration_rules | A list of S3 bucket v2 lifecycle rules, as specified in terraform-aws-s3-bucket" These rules are not affected by the deprecated lifecycle_rule_enabled flag.NOTE: Unless you also set lifecycle_rule_enabled = false you will also get the default deprecated rules set on your bucket. |
list(object({ |
[] |
no |
lifecycle_rule_enabled | DEPRECATED: Defaults to false , use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead.When true , configures lifecycle events on this bucket using individual (now deprecated) variables." |
bool |
false |
no |
listener_additional_tags | The additional tags to apply to all listeners | map(string) |
{} |
no |
listener_http_fixed_response | Have the HTTP listener return a fixed response for the default action. | object({ |
null |
no |
listener_https_fixed_response | Have the HTTPS listener return a fixed response for the default action. | object({ |
null |
no |
listener_https_redirect | Have the HTTPS listener return a redirect response for the default action. | object({ |
null |
no |
load_balancer_name | The name for the default load balancer, uses a module label name if left empty | string |
"" |
no |
load_balancer_name_max_length | The max length of characters for the load balancer. | number |
32 |
no |
load_balancing_algorithm_type | Determines how the load balancer selects targets when routing requests. Only applicable for Application Load Balancer Target Groups | string |
"round_robin" |
no |
load_balancing_anomaly_mitigation | Determines whether to enable target anomaly mitigation. Only supported by the weighted_random load balancing algorithm type. Valid values are 'on' or 'off'. | string |
"off" |
no |
name | ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'. This is the only ID element not also included as a tag .The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input. |
string |
null |
no |
namespace | ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique | string |
null |
no |
noncurrent_version_expiration_days | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Specifies when non-current object versions expire (in days) |
number |
90 |
no |
noncurrent_version_transition_days | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Specifies (in days) when noncurrent object versions transition to Glacier Flexible Retrieval |
number |
30 |
no |
preserve_host_header | Indicates whether the Application Load Balancer should preserve the Host header in the HTTP request and send it to the target without any change. | bool |
false |
no |
regex_replace_chars | Terraform regular expression (regex) string. Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements. If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits. |
string |
null |
no |
security_group_enabled | Enables the security group | bool |
true |
no |
security_group_ids | A list of additional security group IDs to allow access to ALB | list(string) |
[] |
no |
slow_start | The amount of time (30-900 seconds) until a healthy target receives its full share of requests from the load balancer. 0 to disable. | number |
null |
no |
stage | ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' | string |
null |
no |
standard_transition_days | (Deprecated, use lifecycle_configuration_rules instead)Number of days to persist in the standard storage tier before moving to the infrequent access tier |
number |
30 |
no |
stickiness | Target group sticky configuration | object({ |
null |
no |
subnet_ids | A list of subnet IDs to associate with ALB | list(string) |
n/a | yes |
tags | Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'} ).Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module. |
map(string) |
{} |
no |
target_group_additional_tags | The additional tags to apply to the target group | map(string) |
{} |
no |
target_group_name | The name for the default target group, uses a module label name if left empty | string |
"" |
no |
target_group_name_max_length | The max length of characters for the target group. | number |
32 |
no |
target_group_port | The port for the default target group | number |
80 |
no |
target_group_protocol | The protocol for the default target group HTTP or HTTPS | string |
"HTTP" |
no |
target_group_protocol_version | The protocol version for the default target group HTTP1 or HTTP2 or GRPC | string |
"HTTP1" |
no |
target_group_target_type | The type (instance , ip or lambda ) of targets that can be registered with the target group |
string |
"ip" |
no |
tenant | ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for | string |
null |
no |
vpc_id | VPC ID to associate with ALB | string |
n/a | yes |
xff_header_processing_mode | Determines how the load balancer modifies the X-Forwarded-For header in the HTTP request before sending the request to the target. The possible values are append, preserve, and remove. Only valid for Load Balancers of type application. The default is append | string |
"append" |
no |
Name | Description |
---|---|
access_logs_bucket_id | The S3 bucket ID for access logs |
alb_arn | The ARN of the ALB |
alb_arn_suffix | The ARN suffix of the ALB |
alb_dns_name | DNS name of ALB |
alb_name | The ARN suffix of the ALB |
alb_zone_id | The ID of the zone which ALB is provisioned |
default_target_group_arn | The default target group ARN |
default_target_group_arn_suffix | The default target group ARN suffix |
http_listener_arn | The ARN of the HTTP forwarding listener |
http_redirect_listener_arn | The ARN of the HTTP to HTTPS redirect listener |
https_listener_arn | The ARN of the HTTPS listener |
listener_arns | A list of all the listener ARNs |
security_group_id | The security group ID of the ALB |
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