OPS01-AWS300 - Deploy a VPC with Terraform

Cloud Service Provider

✍️ [You need to choose a single cloud provider, unless your project is multi-cloud]

Amazon Web Services

Difficulty

Level 300 (Advanced)

Estimated Time

One hour

Project's Author(s)

Markus Mabson

Objectives

You need to complete the following:

Download terraform binaries Terraform binaries
Initialize terraform working directory
Document your environment (Draw.io)
Create the following with Terraform deployment
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Route Tables (public/private)
- Route Table Associations
- Internet Gateway
- Elastic IP
- Nat Gateway
- 1 EC2 Instance in public/ Private Subnet (Amazon Linux 2 AMI)
- Security Groups
Verify connectivity of public instance / private instance
Delete the Terraform deployment
Verify resources are deleted

You need to answer the following:

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
What is Terraform
What is a state file used for?
In what cases would you use Infrastructure as Code?

References

Costs

Included in the Free Tier

Estimated time to complete

60 minutes
2 hours

Tips

Indent your code to make it concise and readable Some resources may need to wait for another resource to be created.
It may be useful to create a key_pair in the management UI before creating the EC2 instances