Terraform: From Beginner to Master with Examples in AWS/

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Setting up Your First Project

Setting up Your First Project

This lesson will teach you how to set up your first project in Terraform and will go over each part of the project in detail.

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In this chapter, we are going to create your first Terraform project. We will not cover everything in great detail as we will circle back and fill in the gaps in later chapters. We want the focus of this chapter to be about getting a feel for running Terraform and actually creating some infrastructure with it.

Setting up your first project

  1. We’ll create a file named main.tf

  2. Inside the file main.tf, we’ll paste the following text (replace <yourname> with your name or something unique):

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provider "aws" {
    region = "us-east-2"
}
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "first_bucket" {
    bucket = "<yourname>-first-bucket"
}

That’s all we need for our first Terraform project. The Terraform ...