Provisioning and Deployment

Automate AWS EC2 Deployment with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide

February 2, 2024
Posted by Luca Berton
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Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing, the automation of infrastructure provisioning and management has become a cornerstone for delivering robust, scalable, and efficient IT solutions. Terraform, an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp, stands out as a pivotal technology enabling developers and operations teams to implement infrastructure changes with precision and speed. This article delves into how Terraform can be utilized to automate the deployment of an AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure, highlighting a practical example that provisions an AWS EC2 instance.