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Welcome to TerraWeek, a trip into the amazing world of Terraform! Let's start right away:
🤔Terraform: What is it?
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp.
It allow us to define, manage, and provision infrastructure resources using a simple, human-readable configuration language.
🛠️ 1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables defining and managing infrastructure using code.
Instead of manually setting up servers, networks, and other resources, express the desired state in declarative configuration files.
This configuration file serves as a blueprint for creating and managing your infrastructure.
🤔 2. Why do we need Terraform?
Simplified Infrastructure Provisioning:
Terraform automates infrastructure tasks, reducing manual effort.
It brings the concept of Infrastructure as Code, allowing you to treat infrastructure like software code.
Benefits of IaC:
Version Control: Ones can tract changes, collaborate, and roll back if necessary.
Consistency: Terraform ensures consistent infrastructure across different environments (development, staging, production).
Multi-Cloud Support: Terraform works seamlessly with various cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
Dependency Management: It handles resource dependencies automatically.
Execution Plans: Terraform generates plans for changes before applying them.
💻 3. Installing Terraform and Setting Up the Environment
🚀 3.1 Installing Terraform:
🍏 On macOS (using Homebrew):
brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform
🐧 On Linux (using a package manager):
1. For Ubuntu/Debian:
wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list sudo apt update && sudo apt install terraform
2. For CentOS/RHEL and Amazon Linux:
wget -O- https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg echo "[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com $(rpm -E %rhel) main" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/hashicorp.repo sudo yum install terraform
3. Verify the installation:
Open a new terminal session and run:
terraform -help
🚀 3.2 Setting Up the Environment
AWS: Follow the AWS Get Started tutorial to build, change, and destroy AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Azure: Explore the Azure Get Started tutorial to work with Azure infrastructure.
GCP: Look into the Google Cloud Get Started tutorial for GCP infrastructure provisioning.
📚 4. Important Terraform Terminologies:
Provider: A plugin that interacts with a specific infrastructure platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
Example:
provider "aws" { region = "us-west-2" }
Resource: Represents a component of infrastructure (e.g., EC2 instance, VPC, S3 bucket).
Example (AWS EC2 instance):
resource "aws_instance" "my_instance" { ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0" instance_type = "t2.micro" }
Variable: Parameters that allow dynamic input into your configuration.
Example:
variable "region" { description = "AWS region" type = string default = "us-west-2" }
Output: Values you want to expose after applying your configuration.
Example:
output "instance_ip" { value = aws_instance.my_instance.private_ip }
Module: A reusable set of Terraform configurations.
Example:
module "web_server" { source = "./modules/web_server" count = var.num_instances }
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