Summary

Automate deployment of Ubuntu EC2 instance in AWS using Terraform.

Prerequisite

1. VSCode
2. Chocolatey
3. Terraform
4. AWS CLI
5. Create AWS Keypair with AWS CLI
6. Create AWS IAM Admin User and Group
7. Install Putty

Build

mkdir learn-terraform-aws-instance

cd learn-terraform-aws-instance

New-Item -Path . -Name example.tf -ItemType file

code .\example.tf

Copy, save, and close below code into opened example.tf file

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "~> 2.70"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  profile = "default"
  region  = "us-west-2"
}

resource "aws_instance" "example" {
  ami           = "ami-830c94e3"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  key_name = "aws-keypair-test"
}

terraform init

terraform validate

terraform plan

Validate

Connect

Putty

• Session: Host Name (or IP address)
• Connection/Data: Auto-login username
• Connection/SSH/Auth: Private key file for authentication

Source: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/aws-build?in=terraform/aws-get-started