Terraform

If you use Terraform in the corporate environment your company most likely has multiple AWS accounts. One for pre-production, one for production.

To be able to work in multiple AWS accounts, add those keys to the credentials file at C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\.aws

[aws01]
aws_access_key_id = MY_ACCESS_KEY_FOR_AWS01
aws_secret_access_key = MY_SECRET_KEY_FOR_AWS01

[aws02]
aws_access_key_id = MY_ACCESS_KEY_FOR_AWS02
aws_secret_access_key = MY_SECRET_KEY_FOR_AWS02

[default]
aws_access_key_id = MY_ACCESS_KEY_FOR_AWS01
aws_secret_access_key = MY_SECRET_KEY_FOR_AWS01

We will use Terraform to create security groups and load balancers in AWS.

• Create a folder on your workstation for the Git repositories C:\Git
• In the Git folder create a folder for the Terraform Configurations Terraform Configs
• In the Terraform Configs folder create a sub-folder for the

When you are reusing existing Terraform configurations

• Make a copy of the existing Terraform Config folder
• Rename the folder
• Rename the .tf files to match the name of the folder name
• Delete the .tfstate and .tfstate.backup files
• Update the .tf files with the new values
• Open a Bash window in the new folder
• Get the Terraform modules with

  terraform get -update

• Test the script with

  terraform plan

• Execute the script with

  terraform apply

More info on Terraform at https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html

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