Terraform

Learning how to create infrastructure as code

Created a connection to aws in the connections.tf file and a VPC in the resources file.

Useful Commands

$ terraform init # initialise a terraform plan

$ terraform plan # informs you of the resources that will be created

$ terraform apply # shortcut for plan & apply - avoid this in production

$ terraform plan -out out.terraform # terraform plan and write the plan to out file

$ terraform apply out.terraform # apply terraform plan using out file

$ terraform show # show current state

$ terraform destory # delete infastruture from cloud provider

$ terraform import # used to copy a file from source to cloud

Reference Documentation

Download URL: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

AWS Resources: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/

List of providers: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html