Building a Windows 2016 Domain Controller using Ansible + Terrraform on AWS

1. git clone https://github.com/d1vious/building-a-windows-dc-terraform && cd building-a-windows-dc-terraform clone project and cd into the project dir
2. Setup your variables for your environment under terraform.tfvars, set your own password, and public IP in the whitelist
3. Run terraform init and then terraform apply

make sure that you configure terraform first

1. brew install terraform install terraform CLI on OSX other platforms
2. brew install awscli install aws CLI on OSX otherwise see: guide
3. Get AWS API token aws configure
4. Set terraform variables under terraform/terraform.tfvars

if on OSX please first set the following env variable: export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES otherwise you will see the following errors when running Ansible:

aws_instance.windows_2016_dc (local-exec): TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
aws_instance.windows_2016_dc (local-exec): objc[7843]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.
aws_instance.windows_2016_dc (local-exec): objc[7843]: +[__NSCFConstantString initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.
aws_instance.windows_2016_dc: Still creating