Terraform Installation on AWS EC2 Linux Instance — DevOps4Solutions

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In this blog we will do the Terraform Installation on AWS EC2 Linux Instance. We will learn basics of Terraform and its basic commands to launch an Ec2 instance.

Before starting the installation, lets explore what is terraform.

Introduction

Terraform is a cross-platform tool, which means that it does not only interact with AWS — it can also interact with a multitude of other platforms, such as GCE, VMware, OpenStack, and Azure.

The main benefit of it is that rerunning a declarative definition will never do the same job twice, whereas executing the same shell script will most likely break something on the second run.

• Terraform provides special configuration language to declare your infrastructure in simple text templates.
• Terraform also implements a complex graph logic, which allows you to resolve dependencies, intelligibility and reliability.
• When it comes to servers, Terraform has multiple ways of configuring and wiring them up with existing configuration management tools.