Terraform Deployment

Terraform Deployment

Deploy Loki using Terraform.

Prerequisites

• Terraform >= 1.0
• AWS credentials configured (aws configure or environment variables)

Quick Start

terraform init
terraform plan -var="environment_name=my-openclaw"
terraform apply -var="environment_name=my-openclaw"

Variables

Override defaults with -var flags or a terraform.tfvars file:

# terraform.tfvars
environment_name   = "my-openclaw"
instance_type      = "t4g.xlarge"
model_mode         = "bedrock"
bedrock_region     = "us-east-1"

What's Different from CloudFormation?

• Lambda custom resources are deployed as aws_lambda_function and invoked via null_resource + local-exec (no CloudFormation custom resource wrapper)
• EC2 UserData is templated via userdata.sh.tpl using Terraform's templatefile() function
• The cfn-signal in the bootstrap script is a no-op (harmless) — Terraform doesn't use CloudFormation signals
• Data volume is a separate aws_ebs_volume + aws_volume_attachment

Files

File	Description
main.tf	All resources
variables.tf	Input variables with defaults
outputs.tf	Stack outputs
providers.tf	AWS provider configuration
userdata.sh.tpl	EC2 UserData template

Tear Down

terraform destroy -var="environment_name=my-openclaw"

Notes

• terraform apply takes ~8–10 minutes (EC2 bootstrap runs in the background)
• Terraform won't wait for the bootstrap to finish — the instance will be "running" before Loki setup completes
• Check progress: aws ssm get-parameter --name /openclaw/setup-status --query Parameter.Value --output text