Playing Terraform for AWS

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This post is based on terraform tutorial Build infrastructure | Terraform | HashiCorp Developer

Make sure AWSCli being installed and configured correctly (aws configure). Make sure IAM user are configured with AWS role, AWS Access key ID and AWS Secret Access Key.

Use the ami catalog, to determine the ami ID, then after make necessary changes run the init

Result of terraform init
terraform plan will show configuration to be applied once init are successful
AWS EC2 creation failed

To solve this VPC and subnet needs to be created first.

Creation of VPC completed, copy the DMZ subnet ID

Make small change to the EC2 instance of terraform file.

Add DMZ subnet to the terraform file

Rerun the terraform init, terraform plan, terraform validate before rerunning terraform apply, then type yes.

EC2 provisioning Completed
Cleaning up, terraform destroy

To clean up the experiment to avoid paying more, start by destroying the instance then the VPC.

Terraform code is available at https://bitbucket.org/KarMeng/terraform_aws

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