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+# ELB with stickiness Example
+
+The example launches a web server, installs nginx, creates an ELB for isnatnce. It also creates security groups for elb/instance 
+
+To run, configure your AWS provider as described in https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
+
+Running the example
+
+run `terraform apply -var 'key_name={your_key_name}}'` 
+
+Give couple of mins for userdata to insatll nginx, and then type the ELB DNS Name from outputs in your browser and see tegh nginx welcome page
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diff --git a/examples/aws-elb/main.tf b/examples/aws-elb/main.tf
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+# Specify the provider and access details
+provider "aws" {
+    region = "${var.aws_region}"
+}
+
+# Our default security group to access
+# the instances over SSH and HTTP
+resource "aws_security_group" "default" {
+    name = "instance_sg"
+    description = "Used in the terraform"
+
+    # SSH access from anywhere
+    ingress {
+        from_port = 22
+        to_port = 22
+        protocol = "tcp"
+        cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
+    }
+
+    # HTTP access from anywhere
+    ingress {
+        from_port = 80
+        to_port = 80
+        protocol = "tcp"
+        cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
+    }
+
+    # outbound internet access
+    egress {
+        from_port = 0
+        to_port = 0
+        protocol = "-1"
+        cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
+    }
+}
+
+# Our elb security group to access
+# the ELB over HTTP
+resource "aws_security_group" "elb" {
+    name = "elb_sg"
+    description = "Used in the terraform"
+
+    # HTTP access from anywhere
+    ingress {
+        from_port = 80
+        to_port = 80
+        protocol = "tcp"
+        cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
+    }
+
+    # outbound internet access
+    egress {
+        from_port = 0
+        to_port = 0
+        protocol = "-1"
+        cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
+    }
+  
+}
+
+
+resource "aws_elb" "web" {
+  name = "example-elb"
+
+  # The same availability zone as our instance
+  availability_zones = ["${aws_instance.web.availability_zone}"]
+  security_groups = ["${aws_security_group.elb.id}"]
+  listener {
+    instance_port = 80
+    instance_protocol = "http"
+    lb_port = 80
+    lb_protocol = "http"
+  }
+
+  health_check {
+    healthy_threshold = 2
+    unhealthy_threshold = 2
+    timeout = 3
+    target = "HTTP:80/"
+    interval = 30
+  }  
+
+  # The instance is registered automatically
+  instances = ["${aws_instance.web.id}"]
+
+  cross_zone_load_balancing = true
+  idle_timeout = 400
+  connection_draining = true
+  connection_draining_timeout = 400
+
+}
+
+resource "aws_lb_cookie_stickiness_policy" "default" {
+      name = "lbpolicy"
+      load_balancer = "${aws_elb.web.id}"
+      lb_port = 80
+      cookie_expiration_period = 600
+}
+
+resource "aws_instance" "web" {
+  
+  instance_type = "t2.micro"
+
+  # Lookup the correct AMI based on the region
+  # we specified
+  ami = "${lookup(var.aws_amis, var.aws_region)}"
+
+  # The name of our SSH keypair you've created and downloaded
+  # from the AWS console.
+  #
+  # https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2#KeyPairs:
+  #
+  key_name = "${var.key_name}"
+
+  # Our Security group to allow HTTP and SSH access
+  security_groups = ["${aws_security_group.default.name}"]
+
+  user_data = "${file("userdata.sh")}"
+  #Instance tags
+    tags {
+        Name = "elb-example"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/examples/aws-elb/outputs.tf b/examples/aws-elb/outputs.tf
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+output "address" {
+  value = "${aws_elb.web.dns_name}"
+}
diff --git a/examples/aws-elb/userdata.sh b/examples/aws-elb/userdata.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -v
+apt-get update -y
+apt-get install -y nginx > /tmp/nginx.log
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diff --git a/examples/aws-elb/variables.tf b/examples/aws-elb/variables.tf
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+variable "key_name" {
+    description = "Name of the SSH keypair to use in AWS."
+}
+
+variable "aws_region" {
+    description = "AWS region to launch servers."
+    default = "us-east-1"
+}
+
+# ubuntu-trusty-14.04 (x64)
+variable "aws_amis" {
+    default = {
+        "us-east-1" = "ami-5f709f34"
+        "us-west-2" = "ami-7f675e4f"
+    }
+}
+