Terraform is a tool for declaring and managing infrastructure as code. With Terraform you can write declarative configuration files, view execution plans, and apply plans to realize the infrastructure declared in the configuration files. An important advantage of Terraform is that is supports over 100 resource providers including the major public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. In this Lab, you will learn the basics of working with Terraform and create an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with Terraform.

Lab Objectives

Upon completion of this Lab you will be able to:

• Install Terraform on Linux
• Configure Terraform providers
• Create AWS resources with Terraform

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• Working at the command-line in Linux
• Amazon VPC basics 

Updates

October 28th, 2024 - Updated Terraform Version and Instructions to use the latest available version

March 12th, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail to set up on rare occasions

July 6th, 2021 - Refactored lab to use EC2 Instance Connect, updated lab environment images, updated version of Terraform to latest

April 16th, 2021 - Moved validation checks to the most relevant lab step for more immediate validation feedback

August 28th, 2020 - Updated the SSH instructions to reflect the new EC2 user interface

July 18th, 2019 - Improved the validation Lab Step to further check the work you perform in the Lab

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab