AWS Terraform by Example
A hands-on guide to building AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
What we're building
A classified ads application where users interact with a chatbot to manage their ads (CRUD operations). Other users can view and search ads on a website hosted on AWS. We'll cover authentication, authorization, and production-ready infrastructure patterns.
Example chatbot interaction
Approach
We use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision and manage AWS services. This gives us:
- Version control — infrastructure changes are tracked in Git
- Reproducibility — spin up identical environments reliably
- Documentation — configuration files serve as living documentation
- Change management — review infrastructure changes before applying