Terraform is a command-line tool that you can run on your workstation to make changes to your infrastructure. Terraform is a single binary that just needs to be installed onto your path.
You can download Terraform from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html for six different operating systems, including macOS, Windows, and Linux. Download the ZIP file for your operating system, extract it, and then copy the Terraform binary to a location on your path.
Terraform uses files with the .tf extension to describe your infrastructure. Because Terraform supports the management of resources on many different cloud platforms, it can contain the concepts of the relevant providers, which are loaded as required to support the different APIs exposed by the different cloud providers.
First, let's configure the AWS Terraform provider in order to be ready to...