JasonCubic / tf-aws-dev-env-

Terraform AWS Dev Env

• https://youtu.be/iRaai1IBlB0
• https://courses.morethancertified.com/p/rfp-terraform
• Course code: https://github.com/morethancertified/rfp-terraform

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terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply
terraform destroy
terraform apply -auto-approve

state is the most important feature in terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/state

• to list all items in terraform state: terraform state list
• To show details for an item from that list: terraform state show aws_vpc.my_vpc
• To just dump all of the details in the state: terraform show

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how the ssh keypair was made

1. ssh-keygen -t ed25519
2. save to C:\Users\jacubic\.ssh\my-awskey
3. skipped passphrase
4. to verify the files my-awskey and my-awskey.pub were created, run: ls -al ~/.ssh

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ssh into the linux box running in AWS

get the public IP address from the vm

1. get the list of state items: terraform state list
2. show the VM details: terraform state show aws_instance.dev_node
3. find the public IP address
4. ssh into it (replace the IP with the real IP): ssh -i ~/.ssh/my-awskey ubuntu@123.123.123.123
5. get the release info cat /etc/*release or lsb_release -a

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to redeploy the VM

terraform apply -replace aws_instance.dev_node

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to see output if you missed it during the run

terraform output