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Using Terraform to build-Infrastructure-on-Aws

Using Terraform to provision an EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Prerequisites

Terraform CLI (1.2.0+) Gitbash Chocolatey VSCode The AWS CLI

Actions

1. Initially download and install Gitbash Chocolatey VSCode The AWS CLI

2. Install terraform using Chocolately

$ choco install terraform

3. Use your IAM credentials to authenticate the Terraform AWS provider by setting up the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID environment variable.

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=

$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=

4. Create the test folder

$ mkdir terraform-folder

$ cd terraform-folder

5. Create the main.tf file for the terraform configuration

$ touch main.tf

6. Open VSCode to Paste and update the terraform configuration

terraform {
required_providers {
  aws = {
    source  = "hashicorp/aws"
    version = "5.50.0"
  }
}

required_version = ">= 1.2.0"
}

provider "aws" {
region = "us-west-2"
}

resource "aws_instance" "app_server" {
ami           = "ami-08d70e59c07c61a3a"
instance_type = "t2.micro"

tags = {
  Name = "ExampleAppServerInstance"
  }
}

7. Save and Initialize the directory

$ terraform init

8. Format and validate the configuration

$ terraform fmt

$ terraform validate

9. Create the infrastructure on Aws with the terraform apply command

$ terraform apply

10. Type yes at the confirmation prompt to proceed

Note

You can use VSCode or Gitbash to apply the terraform as long as your in the folder.