General Information

Terraform allows you to “write, plan, and create infrastructure as code”.

Site: https://www.terraform.io/

Checklist

• AWS Account

Installing Terraform on Linux.

• Visit downloads page: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
• Copy download link
• On Linux server, wget the link to download (example link)

  wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.7/terraform_0.11.7_linux_amd64.zip

• Unzip single binary, move into /usr/local/bin

  unzip terraform_0.11.7_linux_amd64.zip
   
  mv terraform /usr/local/bin/

• Verify

  terraform --version

• Login to your AWS account, create access keys for CLI use and download the file.
• Create an AWS credentials file in your home directory

  vim ~/.aws/credentials
   
  # AWS Credentials
  [default]
  aws_access_key_id = "access-key-id-here"
  aws_secret_access_key = "secret-key-here"

  • The profile name is “default” and can now be referenced in the terraform config files.

• Lock down permissions

  chmod 600 ~/.aws/credentials

Creating a 2-tier VPC, utilizing 3 availability zones in US-West (Oregon).