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Terraforming the infrastructure

Terraforming the infrastructure

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Terraforming the infrastructure

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- [Instructor] Now, let's terraform our infrastructure. So we'll get into the terminal, and we'll go ahead and do the commands that we need to do. But first, we need to change over to our working directory. Like the last lesson, this is going to be the instances directory. So we'll change over to that now. And inside there, we see our four terraform files. So that's where we're going to work. First thing I'm going to run is a terraform fmt. And that actually made some changes there, let's take a look at the main.tf. It might have modified the user_data option here. It's lined up the equal signs, and so on. So that's good, terraform format is done. Now we'll run a terraform init. That initializes the backend. And at this point, we've moved up to version 4.67. And it's a new day here, and it's been recording the videos. Yesterday it was 4.66, today it's 4.67. So you can see how quickly AWS will release new versions, or at least new minor versions of their provider plugin. But it is…

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