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Getting Started with Terraform

By : Kirill Shirinkin
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Getting Started with Terraform

By: Kirill Shirinkin

Overview of this book

Terraform is a tool used to efficiently build, configure, and improve production infrastructure. It can manage existing infrastructure as well as create custom in-house solutions. This book shows you when and how to implement infrastructure as a code practices with Terraform. It covers everything necessary to set up complete management of infrastructure with Terraform, starting with the basics of using providers and resources. This book is a comprehensive guide that begins with very small infrastructure templates and takes you all the way to managing complex systems, all using concrete examples that evolve over the course of the book. It finishes with the complete workflow of managing a production infrastructure as code – this is achieved with the help of version control and continuous integration. At the end of this book, you will be familiar with advanced techniques such as multi-provider support and multiple remote modules.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with Terraform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Making sense of our template


So far, we have created a VPC with a single subnet. While we played around with master-slave instances and dependencies between them, these were just temporal changes to show how Terraform handles these use cases. Now it's time to add more meat to the template: let's create an instance, with a security group attached to it.

Let's say we have a web application named MightyTrousers and we need a server for this, protected from unwanted traffic by a security group:

resource "aws_security_group" "allow_http" { 
  name = "allow_http" 
  description = "Allow HTTP traffic" 
  vpc_id = "${aws_vpc.my_vpc.id}" 
 
  ingress { 
    from_port = 80 
    to_port = 80 
    protocol = "tcp" 
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"] 
  } 
 
  egress { 
    from_port = 0 
    to_port = 0 
    protocol = "-1" 
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"] 
  } 
} 
 
resource "aws_instance" "mighty-trousers...