How to Install Terraform in Centos and Create EC2 instance using Terraform

Description: Here I have explained, How to install Terraform in Centos and How to create an EC2 instance using Terraform

Install Terraform in Centos

• Download Terraform from the URL and upload to Centos machine or download using wget command 

#wgt https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.15.3/terraform_0.15.3_linux_amd64.zip

• Once you download unzip and extract it

• After extract terraform binary from zipping, We need to add it on bin path or add the binary path to the source

 # cp terraform /usr/bin/

        OR

Add current pwd path to bash_profile using below command

# echo $"export PATH=\$PATH:$(pwd)" >> ~/.bash_profile

# source ~/.bash_profile

• After adding into path verify terraform version using below command

# terraform --version

Create EC2 instance using Terraform

• Create IAM user with EC2 access in AWS console 

• Download CSV for access_key and secret_key for user
• Create Project Directory for Terraform

# mkdir Terraform-Project

# cd Terraform-Project

• Create terraform project as follow and paste 

# vi ec2.tf
provider "aws" {
   access_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
   secret_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
   region = "us-east-1"
 }

 resource "aws_instance" "Test" {
  ami = "ami-09d19e919d57453f8"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  key_name = "Terraform_Key"

 tags = {
    Name = "Terraform"
   }
  }

• Initialize terraform project by run below command, you will get output as follow

# terraform init

• After initialize apply to terraform project using the below command and you will get output as follow. We need to type 'yes' to confirm

# terraform apply

• Once the process will be completed, you will get output as follow
  

• Also, find a new EC2 instance in the list