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Terraform: From Beginner to Master with Examples in AWS

Setting up Your First Project

Explore the process of creating your first Terraform project by configuring the AWS provider and defining an S3 bucket resource. Understand the basics of Terraform code structure and how it manages infrastructure deployment with clear, readable code.

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In this chapter, we are going to create your first Terraform project. We will not cover everything in great detail as we will circle back and fill in the gaps in later chapters. We want the focus of this chapter to be about getting a feel for running Terraform and actually creating some infrastructure with it.

Setting up your first project

  1. We’ll create a file named main.tf

  2. Inside the file main.tf, we’ll paste the following text (replace <yourname> with your name or something unique):

C++
provider "aws" {
    region = "us-east-2"
}
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "first_bucket" {
    bucket = "<yourname>-first-bucket"
}

That’s all we need for our first Terraform project. The Terraform code we have just written will create an S3 bucket ...