I had an issue while I was trying to setup Remote S3 bucket for storing Terraform state file. The issue faced is error configuring S3 Backend no valid credential sources for S3 Backend found. After spending some time on my local terraform setup and AWS CLI configuration I realised that my AWS CLI was using incorrect …

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Terraform state is the backbone of your terraform project for provisioning your cloud infrastructure. When you work on large infrastructure provisioning with Terraform then it is always more than one developer or team of a developer working on the same terraform project. The problems arise when two developers try to …

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Terraform has its backbone known as terraform.tfstate file any change you do with your infrastructure will have its presence in the terraform.tfstate file. So when you work with Terraform for managing and provisioning your infrastructure then terraform will always create a terraform.tfstate file for you. In this blog …

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For managing the cloud resources(EC2, S3 Bucket) on AWS you need to supply the AWS secrets(region, access_key, secret_key) inside the terraform file. You can use the plain text AWS Secrets inside your terraform file and it should work fine. But from the security standpoint, it is strongly discouraged to use plain text …

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Terraform worksapces is a very logical concept where you can have multiple states of your infrastructure configuration. To put this in simple words if you are running an infrastructure configuration in development environment then the same infrastructure can be run in the production environment. The main benefit of …

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Terraform file always grows as you span your infrastructure and add multiple servers to your cloud-hosted infrastructure. But imagine you have terraform file which contains lots of resources but you only do not want to apply the complete terraform configuration but instead, you just want to run one specific or some …

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Terraform is an IaC(infrastructure as Code) framework for managing and provisioning the infrastructure but have you ever thought of creating only a single terraform configuration file for managing the complete cloud infrastructure. Well, it sounds insane because if you only have a single file for managing the complete …

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This blog post will help you to understand how to do SSH into AWS EC2 instance using Terraform. It is quite often that you create your terraform script for setting up your EC2 instance but after starting your EC2 can not SSH into EC2 instance created with Terraform. When you are working on the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud) …

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Terraform Provisioners are used to performing certain custom actions and tasks either on the local machine or on the remote machine. The custom actions can vary in nature and it can be - Running custom shell script on the local machine Running custom shell script on the remote machine Copy file to the remote machine …

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Terraform destroy will no doubt provide you a clean slate to work with your infrastructure but it is not needed to run terraform destroy before running terraform apply or plan commands. There is one caution while working with terraform destroy command, it is not advisable to run it on a production environment because …

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