A hands-on lab using Terraform to provision AWS infrastructure within the Free Tier limits. This project is designed to demonstrate basic infrastructure-as-code (IaC) skills, reusable modules, and deployment automation practices.

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• ✅ Create VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, Route Tables
• ✅ Provision EC2 instance (Amazon Linux 2)
• ✅ Attach Security Groups and Key Pairs
• ✅ Create an S3 bucket
• ✅ Use remote state with Terraform backend (optional)
• ✅ Written with Free Tier limits in mind

• Terraform
• AWS
• GitHub
• CLI tools: aws-cli, terraform

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/girishpotdar/terraform-aws-free-tier-lab.git
   cd terraform-aws-free-tier-lab
   

2. Configure AWS Credenetials

   aws configure
   

3. Initialize and apply Terraform

   terraform init
   terraform plan
   terraform apply
   

4. Destroy resources when done

   terraform destroy
   

terraform-aws-free-tier-lab/
│
├── main.tf            # Core resources
├── variables.tf       # Input variables
├── outputs.tf         # Output values
├── provider.tf        # AWS provider config
├── terraform.tfvars   # Variable values
└── README.md          # Project documentation

Terraform v1.3+

AWS CLI configured with IAM credentials

An AWS account (Free Tier eligible)

All resources are created within AWS Free Tier limits.

Always run terraform destroy to avoid unintended charges.

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