How to launch an EC2 Instance with Terraform

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. To use terraform, you define the resources you want to create using a declarative configuration language created by Hashicorp known as HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON.

AWS is a popular cloud provider similar to Azure and GCP.

In this guide, we will see how to:

• Define a provider
• Define Terraform Version to use
• Define variables
• Create a Key Pair
• Create an EC2 instance
• Define a Security Group
• Define outputs

Checkout the full guide here