terraform-aws-starter-stack

A Hello World of Terraform.

• This version creates a single EC2 instance in the default VPC using Terraform. The instance runs a tiny HTTP server that serves a simple hello page.

Prerequisites

• Terraform 1.8 or later
• An AWS account
• AWS credentials configured locally (for example with aws configure, environment variables, or AWS SSO)

Files

• providers.tf
  Configures the AWS provider and region, and sets default tags.
• variables.tf
  Defines input variables such as the EC2 instance type.
• main.tf
  Looks up a recent Amazon Linux 2 AMI and creates a single EC2 instance with a small HTTP server.
• outputs.tf
  Prints the public IP and DNS of the instance after apply.

Usage

Initialize Terraform:

terraform init

Format and validate configuration:

terraform fmt
terraform validate

See what Terraform plans to create:

terraform plan

Apply the changes:

terraform apply

Type yes to confirm. When the apply completes, Terraform will output the instance_public_ip and instance_public_dns values.

Open the DNS name in your browser:

http://<instance_public_dns>

You should see:

Hello from terraform-aws-starter-stack!

To clean everything up:

terraform destroy