devops-directive-terraform-course/02-overview/README.md

02 - Overview + Setup

Install Terraform

Official installation instructions from HashiCorp: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli

AWS Account Setup

AWS Terraform provider documentation: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs#authentication

1. create non-root AWS user
2. Add the necessary IAM roles (e.g. AmazonEC2FullAccess)
3. Save Access key + secret key (or use AWS CLI aws configure -- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html)

Hello World

./main.tf contains minimal configuration to provision an EC2 instance.

1. aws configure
2. terraform init
3. terraform plan
4. terraform apply