Creating Your First Infrastructure With Terraform
Learn to create an infrastructure using Terraform and how Terraform creates and destroys the infrastructure.
The first thing you have to do with a new Terraform project is to initialise Terraform for that project. To do this, provide access_key_id and secret_access_key, change <your-name> for the bucket name, and click the RUN button:
đź“ťNote: 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.
provider "aws" {
region = "eu-west-1"
}
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "first_bucket" {
bucket = "<your-name>-first-bucket"
}
You will see some output on the screen as Terraform initialises, then you should see the message
Terraform has been successfully initialized!. Once you have initialised Terraform, you are ready to create the infrastructure by running:
terraform apply
After you run the apply, you will see quite a lot of output from Terraform. You will ...