Installing and Configuring Terraform and AWS CLI: Preparing Your Environment for Infrastructure as Code (Part 2)
Introduction
In the previous part of this Terraform series, we discussed Terraform and its key features and concepts. In this part, we will discuss how to install and configure the AWS CLI and Terraform.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular cloud providers, and Terraform supports AWS natively. The AWS CLI is a command-line interface tool that provides access to AWS services. In this article, we will walk through the installation and configuration of the AWS CLI and Terraform.
- Set up your AWS account
- Installing AWS CLI (windows-Linux-Mac)
- Configure AWS
- Install Terraform
Setup AWS account:
Terraform can provision infrastructure across public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean, as well as private cloud and virtualization platforms such as OpenStack and VMware. For just about all of the code examples in this blog post series, you are going to use AWS.
If you don’t already have an AWS account, head over to https://aws.amazon.com and sign up. When you first register for AWS, you initially sign…
