aws-compu-terraform

Create and deploy multiple different type of AWS EC2-AMIs with Terraform

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AWS EC2s-AMIs diagram

Purpose

Shows how to use AWS with Terraform to accomplish the following tasks:

• How to build multiple different type of AWS EC2-AMIs dynamically

Prerequisites

• You must have an AWS account, and have your default credentials and AWS Region configured
• You must have Terraform installed

Cautions

• As an AWS best practice, grant this code least privilege, or only the permissions required to perform a task. For more information, see Grant Least Privilege in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.
• This code has been tested in us-west-1 AWS Regions only. However it should work in any other region.
• Running this code it will result in charges to your AWS account.

How to run this code

• How to run this code
  • Quick Start
  • Quick Destroy
  • Notes

Quick Start

It will deploy to the account setup for the aws cli called 'default'

cd aws-compu-terraform
terraform init
terraform validate
terraform apply --auto-approve

Quick Destroy

terraform destroy --auto-approve

Notes

• clone this Git repo
• cd to the the directory aws-compu-terraform.
• use terraform init command to initialize the Terraform working directory and to download plugins for a provider (aws)
• terraform validate command will validate the code before actual deployment
• terraform plan command will show the execution code before making the actual deployment
• terraform apply
• Alternate command : terraform apply -auto-approve
• terraform destroy
• Alternate command : terraform destroy -auto-approve
• terraform fmt -recursive # A way to format the terraform code