Deploying Your First Server with Terraform: A Beginner's Guide

Deploying Your First Server with Terraform: A Beginner's Guide This is a simple walkthrough of how I deployed a basic web server on AWS using Terraform. The goal is not to overcomplicate things but to help you understand how the pieces fit together and get something running end to end. Overview In this project, we are: Creating a VPC Creating a public subnet Attaching an Internet Gateway Configuring a route table for internet access Setting up a security group (ports 22, 80, 443) Launching an EC2 instance Installing Apache using user data Accessing the server via public IP At the end, you should be able to open your browser and see a simple HTML page served from your EC2 instance. Prerequisites Before you start, make sure you have: AWS CLI installed and configured (aws configure) Terraform installed (terraform version) VS Code installed Extensions: HashiCorp Terraform AWS Toolkit Also ensure: You are using an IAM user, not root Your IAM user has enough permissions to create VPC, EC2, e