AWS EC2 Terraform Starter

A simple Terraform project that provisions an AWS EC2 instance with SSH and HTTP access.

Prerequisites

• Terraform (>= 0.14)
• AWS account with appropriate permissions
• AWS CLI configured with your credentials

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/aws-ec2-terraform-starter.git
cd aws-ec2-terraform-starter

2. Create an AWS key pair

Create a key pair named terraform-test in the AWS console or using the AWS CLI:

aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name terraform-test --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > terraform-test.pem
chmod 400 terraform-test.pem

3. Initialize Terraform

terraform init

4. Review the execution plan

terraform plan

5. Apply the configuration

terraform apply

When prompted, type yes to confirm.

6. Access your instance

Once provisioning is complete, you can SSH into your instance:

ssh -i terraform-test.pem ec2-user@<public-ip>

Replace <public-ip> with the public IP address shown in the Terraform output.

Resources Created

• EC2 instance (t2.micro)
• Security group allowing SSH (port 22) and HTTP (port 80) access

Cleanup

To destroy all resources created by Terraform:

terraform destroy

When prompted, type yes to confirm.

License

MIT