Merge pull request #10 from solutionDrive/enable-https-by-default

Changes the port 80 listener to have a default action that redirects …

Author: Matthias Alt

README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ application-cluster in different code bases!
 1. LoadBalancer
 
 Resources for a LoadBalancer (default: ApplicationLoadBalancer) with
-    1 Listener for Port 80
+    1 Listener for Port 80 (the default action is to redirect to https)
     1 Listener for Port 443 (An AWS-certificate is mandatory for this at the moment)
     1 Default Target Group (needed to define a listener)
 

loadbalancer/loadbalancer.tf

@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@ resource "aws_lb_listener" "loadbalancer_listener" {
   protocol          = "HTTP"
 
   default_action {
-    target_group_arn = "${aws_lb_target_group.loadbalancer_default_target_group.arn}"
-    type             = "forward"
+    type             = "redirect"
+
+    redirect {
+      port        = "443"
+      protocol    = "HTTPS"
+      status_code = "HTTP_301"
+    }
   }
 }