Understanding the AWS Provider for Terraform

A presentation at Bangalore HashiCorp User - May 2020 in May 2020 in by Kerim Satirli

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Understanding the AWS Provider for Terraform

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Kerim Satirli (He/Him) Developer Advocate at HashiCorp

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@ksatirli on GitHub and Twitter

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Infrastructure as Code

executable documentation
enables collaboration
safe and predictable

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Terraform

125+ Official Providers (AWS, GCP, Docker, etc.)
175+ Community Providers (1Password, Stripe, Unifi, etc.)

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Variable Definition Files

contain key-value definitions of variables
automatically loaded if named:
- “terraform.tfvars” or “terraform.tfvars.json”
- “.auto.tfvars” or “.auto.tfvars.json”

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Managing AWS with Terraform

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AWS Provider for Terraform (ChangeLog

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Terraform lifecycle

terraform init
terraform fmt
terraform validate
terraform plan -out="terraform.tfplan"
terraform apply "terraform.tfplan"
terraform plan -destroy

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Scaling Terraform

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Review

Providers
Lifecycle
State

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Materials:

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HashiConf Digital:

June 22 - 24, 2020
online
free registration

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Thank You