Terraform basics for developing AWS infrastructure projects
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It can manage infrastructure for many different types of cloud providers, including AWS.
Let’s look at some basic concepts in Terraform.
Resources
A resource is an element of your infrastructure, such as an EC2 instance, an S3 bucket, or a security group.
A resource is typically created using a resource block in your Terraform configuration. A resource block has a type and a name, and it specifies the desired state of the resource. For example, the following block creates an EC2 instance in AWS:
resource "aws_instance" "web_server" {
ami = "ami-12345678"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
} This resource block creates an EC2 instance with the type aws_instance and the name web_server...
