Terraform Deployment - Docker Container with Nginx Web Server

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Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
3. Usage
4. Roadmap
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Contact

About The Project

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. The cloud computing tool assists in building, modifying, and versioning infrastructure in a secure and efficient manner.

In this project I crafted a Terraform file to automate the process of creating a Docker container that runs a Nginx web server image.

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Built With

• Terraform
• Docker
• Nginx

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Getting Started

These are instructions for Windows Users. To gather instruction for other OS please visit: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli?in=terraform/gcp-get-started

To get started you would want to make sure you have the following utlities installed:

• Terraform
• Docker
• WSL2

Steps

Create a directory named learn-terraform-docker-container:

mkdir learn-terraform-docker-container

Then navigate into it:

cd learn-terraform-docker-container

Paste the following Terraform configuration into a file and name it main.tf:

terraform {
required_providers {
  docker = {
    source  = "kreuzwerker/docker"
    version = ">= 2.16.0"
  }
}
}

provider "docker" {
}

resource "docker_image" "nginx" {
name         = "nginx:latest"
keep_locally = false
}

resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
image = docker_image.nginx.latest
name  = "tutorial"
ports {
  internal = 80
  external = 8000
}
}

Then initialize the project:

terraform init

And finally provision and push the configuration:

terraform apply

If all goes well you should see the Nginx container running of localhost:800 or by running docker ps:

After that is done, be sure to stop the container and destroy the Nginx webserver:

terraform destroy

Usage

For examples, please refer to the Documentation

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Roadmap

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

Project Link: https://github.com/iqtheengineer/gcp-terraform-project

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