terraform-aws-infrastructure

A terraform repository for provisioning AWS infrastructure resources.

Set-Up

1. Create an AWS account if not already in place.
2. Check if terraform is installed on the machine. If not follow the link to install terraform - https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli
3. Once AWS account is set-up, get the user credetails to access the account.
   • Pre-requiste for next steps (Theses can be obtained from the GUI account-> security credentials)

     access_key

     secret_key

4. Clone this repo locally in any IDE (VS-Code, IntelliJ) or use terminal.
5. Open the file provider.tf and replace this text "place-aws-account-access-key" with your access_key and replace this text "place-aws-account-secret-key" with your secret_key
   
6. Change the bucket_name in the file terraform.tfvars as bucket-name should be unique globally
   

Running terraform commands/workflow

1. Initialize the set-up, meaning installing required provider.
   terraform init
2. Next, validate if the terraform syntax is correct.
   terraform validate
3. Next, preview the resources to be provisioned.
   terraform plan
4. Finally, provision all the resources for the provider.
   terraform apply
5. Destroy the resources if not required.
   (This should be used carefully and only when all the resources are not required)
   terraform destroy