How to use Terraform to Manage AWS [TUTORIAL]

Introduction to using Terraform to manage a simple EC2 instance in AWS.

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[saitaro]

I bought the Django/Docker Udemy course from this guy, can confirm it's top quality. I used this knowledge and my code from the course project to get my first dev job.

[rouwenpi]

It is a very good tutorial, I'm used to aws and tf, but the way you do it (aws-vault, docker-compose etc.) is brilliant.
Congrats

[oluwakemiayeni]

jus stumbled into your chanel now brilant tutorial excelent delivery. Anoher thing i enjoyed is listening to that voice its too angelic it makes the whole thing to sink in.Nice job man, you have a sub in me

[dongwang]

He is really brilliant and good at teaching.

[likheshmahajan]

Awesome, Simple loved the video. Very nicely explained.

[samarthurs]

Thanks for the tutorial with aws-vault. Rest of the videos over the YouTube are with "aws configure".
Well, I already had the Terraform 12 installed on my windows, I didn't use the docker-compose approach.
After following the entire video, I was not able to run "terraform plan".
Error: No valid credential sources found for AWS Provider...

Terraform was not able to identify the "key-name" under "aws_instances". I had given the exact key-pair name which I created using ssh-keygen and imported into the EC2 key pairs.


Finally, I had to run every terraform command with the prefix - "aws-vault exec <profile> -- "
like below:
aws-vault exec <profile> -- terraform init
aws-vault exec <profile> -- terraform plan
aws-vault exec <profile> -- terraform apply
aws-vault exec <profile> -- terraform destroy

[holyproton]

You did an excellent job! This was simple to follow and easy to understand.

[alirezacom]

Brilliant! I really enjoyed this Tutorial, well done.

[biswaranjansahoo]

Nice explanation and demo - helps quickly understanding the concepts well

[jasonriedel]

Cool tutorial! I just did one, and ran cross yours. Definitely yours is more advanced, and with less mistakes haha! Keep up the good stuff!

[BlueskyandHappy]

Really enjoyed! Well explained, Thanks a lot :))

[Mnsave]

The environments, under the docker-compose file, are not being passed to the docker container. This is why we get the error: no valid credential sources for Terraform AWS Provider found, when running terraform plan or apply.

[andrewshk]

Thank you for such a great tutorial! I followed every step but I'm still getting the "Permission denied (publickey)." error when I'm trying to connect with ssh.

[NDGS]

when trying to initialise, I am getting this error:
ERROR: In file './docker-compose.yml', service 'image' must be a mapping not a string.

[DaNuker]

I aws vault wouldnt let me input the secret access key after inoputing the key ID. it asks for an input but doesnt let me add anything, only lets me leave it blank and press enter. any idea why this happens? thanks in advance

[nileshjoshi]

Awesome! Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial. Just a quick question, what’s the significance of using Docker compose to run tf commands. Can you please explain the use case for it?

[Mnsave]

Thanks for the vid. Does this still applies after the release of TF 1.x?

[GS-vnpf]

Hey really nice video! I have a question: My aws-vault does not work, it does find the "aws-vault" command! What do I do?

[JoeFrixon]

Thanks for this wonderful video. I have a question if there are named profiles in the AWS credentials which location the profile to be referenced I assume we need to refer in the docker-compose file but how?

[JackReacher]

When I execute "docker-compose run --rm tf plan"
Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: error validating provider credentials: error calling sts:GetCallerIdentity: ExpiredToken: The security token included in the request is expired
status code: 403, request id: <the request id>