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Intrastructure as code with Terraform

What is Terraform

Terraform Architecture

Terraform default file/folder structure

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AWS Keys with Terraform security

Installing Terraform

First we install choco:

• Launch powershell with administrator rights: Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Next we install terraform:
choco install terraform
Next, we restart the powershell instance to refresh the environment variables. We can use Terraform now.

Terraform Commands

• terraform init to initialise Terraform

• terraform plan checks the script

• terraform apply implements the script

• terraform destroy to delete everything

• Terraform file/folder structure

• .tf extension - e.g. main.tf

• Apply DRY (do not repeat yourself)

Set up AWS keys as an ENV in windows machine

• AWS_ACCES_KEY_ID for aws access key
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for aws secret
• Click windows key - type env - edit the system env variable - New user variable - Create a new one for each of AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.