Deploying Resources Using Terraform

Understanding the Terraform workflow

When we want to employ Terraform to deploy resources, we need to take a sequence of steps. After we’ve prepared our configuration files, the major workflow is as follows:

1. Initialize a working directory
2. Verify the execution plan
3. Apply the execution plan
4. Destroy existing infrastructure

Let’s consider a scenario where we’ve been tasked to set up a simple network infrastructure on AWS consisting of a VPC and a private subnet. The configuration file for this infrastructure has already been provided to us, as shown in the playground below. We’ll walk through the Terraform workflow to set up this infrastructure on AWS by following the steps given below.

Initialize a working directory for

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