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Introduction
In the Part 01 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)
3. Configure AWS
4. Install Terraform
1. 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 in as the root user. This user account has access permissions to do absolutely anything in the account, so from a security perspective, it’s not a good idea to use the root user on a day-to-day basis.
To create a more-limited user account, you will need to use the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. IAM is where you manage user accounts as well as the permissions for each user. To create a new IAM user, go to the IAM Console, click Users, and then click the Add Users button.
Create a user and get secret and access keys. We will use later on.
2. Installing the AWS CLI
The AWS CLI can be installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this section, we will discuss the installation process for each of these operating systems.
For Windows:
To install the AWS CLI on Windows, follow these steps:
Download the AWS CLI MSI installer from the official AWS documentation site.
After the installation is complete, you can verify that the AWS CLI is installed by opening a command prompt and running the following command:
aws --version
This command should display the installed version of the AWS CLI.
For Linux:
To install the AWS CLI on Linux, follow these steps:
Open a terminal window.
- Install the Python package manager, pip, by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
- Install the AWS CLI by running the following command:
sudo pip install awscli
After the installation is complete, you can verify that the AWS CLI is installed by running the following command:
aws --version
This command should display the installed version of the AWS CLI.
For macOS:
To install the AWS CLI on macOS, follow these steps:
Open a terminal window.
Install the AWS CLI by running the following command:
brew install awscli
After the installation is complete, you can verify that the AWS CLI is installed by running the following command:
aws --version
This command should display the installed version of the AWS CLI.
3. Configuring the AWS CLI
After installing the AWS CLI, you need to configure it with your AWS credentials. Follow these steps to configure the AWS CLI:
Open a terminal window.
Run the following command to configure the AWS CLI:
aws configure
When prompted, enter your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, default region name, and default output format.
After configuring the AWS CLI, you can use it to interact with AWS services.
4. Installing Terraform
Now that we have installed and configured the AWS CLI, we can move on to installing Terraform. Terraform can be installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this section, we will discuss the installation process for each of these operating systems.
Windows
To install Terraform on Windows, follow these steps:
- Download the Terraform ZIP archive for Windows from the official Terraform website .
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP archive to a directory of your choice.
3. Add the directory where Terraform was extracted to your system’s PATH environment variable.
4. After the installation is complete, you can verify that Terraform is installed by opening a command prompt and running the following command:
terraform version
This command should display the installed version of Terraform.
Linux and macOS
To install Terraform on Linux and macOS, follow these steps:
- Download the Terraform ZIP archive for Linux or macOS from the official Terraform website .
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP archive to a directory of your choice.
3. Add the directory where Terraform was extracted to your system’s PATH environment variable.
4. After the installation is complete, you can verify that Terraform is installed by opening a terminal window and running the following command:
terraform version
This command should display the installed version of Terraform.
Conclusion
In this article, we discussed how to install and configure the AWS CLI and Terraform. The AWS CLI is a command-line interface tool that provides access to the AWS services, while Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure.
To use Terraform with AWS, you need to install and configure the AWS CLI. After that, you can install Terraform and start building your infrastructure as code. With Terraform, you can define your infrastructure in code, which enables you to version, review, and collaborate on changes to your infrastructure.
In the next part of this Terraform series, we will discuss how to create your first Terraform configuration file and deploy it to AWS.
In Part 03 , Getting Started with Terraform: Deploying Your First AWS Infrastructure Using Terraform Configuration Files.
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