Ex-7.md

Creating aws EC2 instance using terraform

Prerequisites

• AWS account
• Terraform installed
• AWS CLI installed
• AWS CLI configured with your credentials

Procedure using terraform EC2 module (ez way)

1. Create a directory for your project and change into it.
2. Create a file named main.tf and add the following code to it:

module "ec2-instance" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws"
  version = "5.0.0"
}

3. Run terraform init to initialize the directory.
4. Run terraform plan to see what Terraform will do.
5. Run terraform apply to create the resources.
6. Run terraform destroy to destroy the resources.

Procedure using terraform aws provider

1. Create a directory for your project and change into it.
2. Create a file named main.tf and add the following code to it:

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

resource "aws_instance" "devops-ex-7" {
  ami           = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
}

3. Run terraform init to initialize the directory.
4. Run terraform plan to see what Terraform will do.
5. Run terraform apply to create the resources.
6. Run terraform destroy to destroy the resources.