Terraform + AWS + EC2 (basic)
In previous article, we discussed Ansible and its key differences with Terraform. Now, we will pay attention to Terraform a great tool for automation in infrastructure provisioning. Terraform is completely compatible with known Cloud providers like AWS, Google, and Azure, making it possible to automatically provision required cloud resources like virtual instances and Kubernetes clusters.
I will cover Terraform + Amazon AWS provider through three articles step-by-step getting advanced as below:
1. Terraform + AWS + EC2
2. Terraform + AWS + EKS
3. Terraform + AWS + EKS + Auto-Scaling
For the first example refer to the link below and follow the instructions inside README file. The related playbook creates an EC2 machine and executes an example script inside it in order to install some stuff as our requirements. Terraform includes many learning tips and the related playbook only tries to provide you with an example regarding writing simple playbooks plus executing a scripts inside the provisioned machine.