Terraform Powered by GlobalSolutions

Terraform is one of the most popular Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, used by DevOps teams to automate infrastructure tasks and provision cloud resources. It is an open-source, cloud-agnostic tool developed by HashiCorp and written in Go. Terraform handles both orchestration and configuration management, supports popular providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle, and provides immutable infrastructure where configuration changes are straightforward.

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Terraform Workflow

terraform init — Initializes the local Terraform environment. Always the first command to run.
terraform plan — Compares the Terraform state with the current state in the cloud and displays an execution plan.
terraform apply — Executes the plan, creating or modifying infrastructure resources in your environment.
terraform destroy — Deletes all resources governed by the current Terraform environment.

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Accessing Your AMI from AWS Marketplace

To get started with your Terraform stack:

Subscribe: Purchase the Terraform AMI from the AWS Marketplace.
Connect via SSH:
- SSH into the instance using the following command:
```
ssh -i yourpemfile.pem ubuntu@<public-ip-of-your-server>
```
- Once logged in you will land in the home directory.

For more information, refer to the AWS Instance Connection Guide.

Getting Started with Terraform

We have packaged Terraform with sample code to help you kick-start building your infrastructure. The sample code will create a private S3 bucket in your AWS account.

Setting Up Your Credentials

From the home directory, navigate into the gs folder:
```
cd gs
```
You will see main.tf in the folder — this is the Terraform code that will create the private S3 bucket.
Run aws configure and provide your AWS credentials when prompted:
```
aws configure
```

Important: The access key and secret key of the IAM user must have S3 create permissions. Make sure the correct permissions are attached to the user before proceeding.

Running Terraform

Initialize the working directory, review the plan, then apply it to create the S3 bucket:

terraform init
terraform plan  -var="bucket_name=gs-private-demo-20260503"
terraform apply -var="bucket_name=gs-private-demo-20260503"

Caution: The above commands use sample code to help you start the right way. Please review the code thoroughly and build your own configurations before running in production.

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