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Installing Terraform and Working with Terraform Providers

In this hands-on lab, we'll go through installing and configuring Terraform version 13 on a Linux OS. We will also explore how to select and use a Terraform provider from among the many providers available publicly.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

30m

Published

Jan 19, 2021

Challenge

Download And Manually Install the Terraform Binary
1. Download the appropriate Terraform binary package for the provided lab server VM (Linux 64-bit) using the wget command.
2. Unzip the downloaded zip file.
3. Place the unzipped Terraform binary in the path of the VM operating system so the binary is accessible system-wide.
4. Test that the Terraform binary is functioning properly by checking the version information that is returned.
Challenge

Clone Over Code for Terraform Providers
1. Create a providers directory.
2. Switch into the providers directory.
3. Create a main.tf file using the code provided in the lab's GitHub repo.
Challenge

Deploy the Code with Terraform Apply
1. Enable verbose output logging for Terraform commands using the TF_LOG=TRACE command.
2. Initialize the working directory where the code is located.
3. Review the actions that will be performed when you deploy the code using the terraform plan command.
4. Deploy the code with the terraform apply command.
5. Verify that your resources were created and that the providers are working as intended.
6. Tear down the infrastructure using the terraform destroy --auto-approve command.

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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