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aws_elb

Provides an Elastic Load Balancer resource.

Example Usage

# Create a new load balancer
resource "aws_elb" "bar" {
  name = "foobar-terraform-elb"
  availability_zones = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2c"]

  listener {
    instance_port = 8000
    instance_protocol = "http"
    lb_port = 80
    lb_protocol = "http"
  }

  health_check {
    healthy_threshold = 2
    unhealthy_threshold = 2
    timeout = 3
    target = "HTTP:8000/"
    interval = 30
  }

  instances = ["${aws_instance.foo.id}"]
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

  • name - (Required) The name of the ELB
  • availability_zones - (Optional) The AZ's to serve traffic in.
  • instances - (Optional) A list of instance ids to place in the ELB pool.
  • listener - (Required) A list of listener blocks. Listeners documented below.
  • health_check - (Required) A health_check block. Health Check documented below.

Listeners support the following:

  • instance_port - (Required) The port on the instance to route to
  • instance_protocol - (Required) The the protocol to use to the instance.
  • lb_port - (Required) The port to listen on for the load balancer
  • lb_protocol - (Required) The protocol to listen on.

Health Check supports the following:

  • healthy_threshold - (Required) The number of checks before the instance is declared healthy.
  • unhealthy_threshold - (Required) The number of checks before the instance is declared unhealthy.
  • target - (Required) The target of the check.
  • interval - (Required) The interval between checks.
  • timeout - (Required) The length of time before the check times out.

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

  • id - The name of the ELB
  • name - The name of the ELB
  • dns_name - The DNS name of the ELB
  • instances - The list of instances in the ELB