terraformDetails.txt

Reference Book:
https://terraformbook.com/TheTerraformBook_sample.pdf
https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/v0.8.2/appendices/aws-setup.html
https://linuxacademy.com/community/posts/show/topic/18181-can-somebody-explain-how-to-install-terraform
https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/instance.html



1.Download Terraform from the link below: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
2.Open EC2 instance on the putty
3. fire this command in putty: wget  https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.3/terraform_0.11.3_linux_amd64.zip
4. install unzip version using this cmd: apt install unzip
5. Fire this command in a directory to extract terraform: unzip terraform_0.11.3_linux_amd64.zip
6. Move this unzipped terraform folder under: /usr/local/bin
7. rm terraform_0.11.3_linux_amd64.zip in putty.
8. Go to parent directory and fire this cmd:  terraform --version

9. inside terraform directory: vim ec2_instance.tf
10 copy the below code of HCL format:
   provider "aws" {
        region = "us-east-2"
 }

   resource "aws_instance" "manee2k6" {
        ami = "ami-965e6bf3"
        instance_type = "t2.micro"
        key_name = "terraform"
        security_groups= ["JenkinsSG"]
        tags {
         Name = "terraform-instance"
        }
 }

11. fire the following command where the file above ec2_instance.tf exists:
     terraform init
     terraform plan
     terraform apply
     terraform destroy