Why we need Terraform, Installation and Overview
Just imagine if there are 20 people who are working in Devops/SRE managing 2000 servers, 50 s3 buckets, 200 code pipelines, 30 different IAM roles. Just imagine how many clicks you have to do just to add 100 new ec2 and remove 50 old ec2s and you would be spending at least 2 hours on it may be more.
What if I tell you it is all possible within 10 mins you just have to copy paste some lines of. Are you scared of code? Me too. Do not worry it is not literally code. It is more of writing a letter to AWS and AWS doing whatever you have written in letter.
The letter is your code and the post man who deliver the letter to AWS is Terraform. Terraform helps engineers to build infrastructure using code, not only on AWS but multiple other providers as you can see here. I will add the link in the description.
Let’s install terraform on our laptops.
Let’s check if it is installed or no by running:
terrform –help
Yas! Terraform is installed.
In the next video/blog we will talk about how we can connect the terraform and AWS.
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