Introduction

The first resource I create and provision using terraform is the AWS S3 bucket. By writing terraform configuration files ( .tf files ) to initialise providers and use terraform commands to interact with AWS APIs and provision resources.

AWS CLI for credentials setup before creating any resource in AWS using aws configure .

The below image shows the procedure of provisioning a simple S3 Bucket.

Terraform Configuration

The set up for this resource involves only two block: the provider configuration block and the S3 bucket resource block

The Provider Block

Since we are using the AWS provider we setup by specifying the region in which the resource will be created

provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" }

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S3 Bucket Resource Block

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "demo_bucket" { bucket = "devbrio53-store"

tags = { Name = "My bucket" Environment = "Dev" } }

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The Terraform resource block starts with the keyword…