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I originally developed a boilerplate template for Next.js with Bootstrap using Terraform version 0.12 and that has been working well for over a year now (see my original blog post). However, recently AWS announced that changes to their API would require an update of the AWS Terraform Provider. While there is an option to patch an older version of the Terraform provider, I figured that may be as good an excuse as any to update the template to the latest version of Terraform, which is 1.1 as of this writing.
Terraform for better or worse is frequently updated with new versions. Many of these introduce incompatibilities with previous versions that require manual rework of Terraform definitions as well as require updating the local or remote Terraform state.
See the configuration for each resource in main.tf.
Next.js is optimised for deployment to the Vercel platform - which provides a fast and easy way to deploy Next.js projects. Apart from that, Next.js can also be deployed using Docker or a virtual machine that can run Node.js. My aim is to deploy Next.js to AWS using Serverless solutions that are low-cost and easy to scale. Thus, I won't be setting up any EC2 instances or EKS/ECS containers. Instead, I will use the following components:
Next.js component is not supported (see Next.js Image loader). Use img instead. The sample project is already set up to use next-optimized-images which can instead be used to serve images.
AWS Lambda: For supporting dynamic routing