Creating AWS Resources with Terraform
Description
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
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