AWS Infrastructure Showcase with Terraform

This is a simple infrastructure demonstration using Terraform that creates:

• EC2 instance with Nginx web server
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Security Group for HTTP access

Prerequisites

1. AWS CLI configured with appropriate credentials
2. Create an S3 bucket for Terraform state storage

aws s3 mb s3://tf-showcase-state-yourname-123 --region us-west-1

Usage

1. Replace yourname-123 in main.tf S3 bucket name with your identifier
2. Run terraform init to initialize the working directory
3. Run terraform apply to create the infrastructure

Once complete, you can access the web server through the ALB URL shown in the Terraform output.

The web page will display:

• Infrastructure details
• Instance metadata
• Explanation of how Terraform works

This is a great conversation starter for discussing:

• Infrastructure as Code concepts
• AWS services
• Terraform usage
• Web server configuration

Cleanup

To remove all resources when you're done:

terraform destroy