Creating Your First Infrastructure With Terraform

Learn to create an infrastructure using Terraform and how Terraform creates and destroys the infrastructure.

We'll cover the following

Terraform plan
Terraform apply
Terraform destroy
Summary

The first thing you have to do with a new Terraform project is to initialise Terraform for that project. To do this, provide aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key, change <your-name> for the bucket name, and click the RUN button:

📝Note: Before running the project please do make sure that you have set up an AWS account. You can also refer to the lesson, Setting up an AWS Account.

Important Note:

If you cannot edit the access keys and other fields in the terminal below, you don’t need to provide your credentials. We have got you covered.
Please use only us-east-2 region for working in AWS in this course.
Please ensure that the bucket name is globally unique.

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Getting Started

Introduction to Terraform

Your First Terraform Project

Resources

Providers

Data Sources

Outputs

Locals

Templates and Files

Variables

Using Variables to Create Dynamic Terraform Configurations

Project Layout

Modules

Create SQS Queues Using Terraform Modules

Plans

State

Manipulate State Using Terraform

Workspaces

Provisioners

Advanced Resources

Exercise

Create a VPC with a CIDR Range and Two Subnets with Terraform

Conclusion

Appendix

Creating Your First Infrastructure With Terraform