Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cookbook

Chapter 2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Configuring the Terraform AWS provider
• Creating and using an SSH key pair to use on AWS
• Using AWS security groups with Terraform
• Creating an Ubuntu EC2 instance with Terraform
• Generating meaningful outputs with Terraform
• Using contextual defaults with Terraform
• Managing S3 storage with Terraform
• Creating private Docker repositories with Terraform
• Creating a PostgreSQL RDS database with Terraform
• Enabling CloudWatch Logs for Docker with Terraform
• Managing IAM users with Terraform

Introduction

A modern infrastructure often uses multiple providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and many others), combined with multiple external ...