Terraform Tutorial on AWS

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Commands from the Tutorial

• Initialize Terraform and download providers.

terraform init

• Create a plan with changes Terraform would perform.

terraform plan

• Create a local AWS profile.

aws configure --profile my-user

• Retrieve the current user from AWS and verify authentication.

aws sts get-caller-identity --profile my-user

• Add a local AWS profile.

vim ~/.aws/config

• Verify that the user can assume the IAM role.

aws sts assume-role \
 --role-arn arn:aws:iam::424432388155:role/terraform-admin \
 --role-session-name terraform \
 --profile my-user

• Apply infrastructure changes to your AWS account.

terraform apply

• Automatically apply changes, used mostly in CI/CD.

terraform apply --auto-approve

• Apply changes specific to a single resource.

terraform apply -target aws_instance.ubuntu

• Import infrastructure component to Terraform.

terraform import aws_instance.ubuntu i-0ed0b68051adae5b4

• Remove infrastructure component from Terraform management.

terraform state rm aws_instance.ubuntu