Terraform Providers
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In the last blog post, we have discussed how to install Terraform in AWS EC2 instance and also created our 1st AWS resource using Terraform.
https://cloudaffaire.com/how-to-install-terraform-in-aws-ec2/
In this blog post, we will discuss terraform providers.
What is Terraform provider?
Providers are responsible in Terraform for managing the lifecycle of a resource: create, read, update, delete. Most providers require some sort of configuration to provide authentication information, endpoint URLs, etc. Terraform has multiple providers like AWS, Azure, GCP and VMWARE etc.
When a provider is used for the 1st time, you must execute terraform init to initialize the provider. Terraform init command downloads the provider-specific packages which are used to manage resource lifecycle.
Provider Syntax:
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## Syntax provider " version = " alias = " } |
Provider demo:
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##------------------------- ## Terraform: Provider ## ##------------------------- ## Create a directory and get inside it mkdir terraform && cd terraform ## Create main.tf vi main.tf --------------- provider "aws" { access_key = " secret_key = " alias = "mumbai" #non default provider aws.mumbai version = "2.5" #AWS provider version 2.5 will be downloaded region = "ap-south-1" } provider "aws" { access_key = " secret_key = " region = "us-east-1" } provider "google" { #multiple types of provider can be used at the same time region = "us-central1" } resource "aws_vpc" "myvpc" { provider = "aws.mumbai" #non default provider mumbai has been called cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16" } --------------- :wq ## Format code terraform fmt ## Initialized terraform (downloads provider [AWS] and [Google] packages) terraform init ## Check files (terraform downloaded the AWS and Google provider packages in .terraform directory) ls -a ls -lh .terraform/plugins/linux_amd64/ ## Check providers terraform providers ## Create resource terraform apply ## Destroy resource terraform destroy ## Cleanup cd .. && rm -rf terraform ############################################ ## AWS provider specific configurations ## ############################################ ## The AWS provider offers a flexible means of providing credentials for authentication. ## The following methods are supported, in this order, and explained below: ## 1. Static credentials ## 2. Environment variables ## 3. Shared credentials file ## 4. EC2 Role ## AWS Provider using Static credentials ## provider "aws" { access_key = " secret_key = " region = " } ## AWS Provider using Environment variables ## ## Export AWS access key, secret key and region export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=" export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=" export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=" ## Provider block provider "aws" {} ## AWS Provider using Shared Credential File ## provider "aws" { region = " shared_credentials_file = "/Users/tf_user/.aws/creds" profile = "aws_profilename" } ## AWS Provider using IAM role ## provider "aws" { assume_role { role_arn = "arn:aws:iam::ACCOUNT_ID:role/ROLE_NAME" session_name = "optional" external_id = "optional" } } |
Hope you have enjoyed this article. In the next blog post, we will discuss terraform resources.
To get more details on terraform, please refer below terraform documentation
https://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html