Install wget and unzip
[root@ip-ec2-instance centos]# yum install wget
[root@ip-ec2-instance centos]# yum install unzip
Download Terraform binary from terraform.io
[root@ip-ec2-instance centos]# wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.4/terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip
--2019-07-16 07:36:28-- https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.4/terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip
Resolving releases.hashicorp.com (releases.hashicorp.com)... 151.101.153.183, 2a04:4e42:24::439
Connecting to releases.hashicorp.com (releases.hashicorp.com)|151.101.153.183|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16039674 (15M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip’
100%[================================================================================================>] 16,039,674 58.1MB/s in 0.3s
2019-07-16 07:36:28 (58.1 MB/s) - ‘terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip’ saved [16039674/16039674]
Unzip Terraform binary to /usr/local/bin
[root@ip-ec2-instance centos]# unzip terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip -d /usr/local/bin
Archive: terraform_0.12.4_linux_amd64.zip
inflating: /usr/local/bin/terraform
Export path to $PATH
[root@ip-ec2-instance ~]# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
[root@ip-ec2-instance ~]# echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin
Run terraform command and test
[root@ip-ec2-instance ~]# terraform
Usage: terraform [-version] [-help] <command> [args]
Create a dir and a .tf file with below code
[root@ip-ec2-instance ~]# mkdir terraform
[root@ip-ec2-instance ~]# cd terraform/
[root@ip-ec2-instance terraform]# vi launch_instance.tf
provider "aws" {
access_key = "XXXXXXX"
secret_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
region = "ap-south-1"
}
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
ami = "ami-02e60be79e78fef21"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
key_name = "key-name"
tags = {
Name = "test-instance"
}
}
AWS access_key and secret_key can also be configured with aws configure command.
In .aws/credentials file
[terraform]
aws_access_key_id = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
aws_secret_access_key = xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxx
provider "aws" {
region = "eu-west-2"
shared_credentials_file = "/home/USER/.aws/credentials"
profile = "terraform"
}
Run terraform init to initalize the backend
[root@ip-ec2-instance terraform]# terraform init
Initializing the backend...
Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins...
- Downloading plugin for provider "aws" (terraform-providers/aws) 2.19.0...
Run terraform plan
[root@ip-ec2-instance terraform]# terraform plan
Run Terraform apply
[root@ip-ec2-instance terraform]# terraform apply
