Setup a simple storage bucket resource using IaC

Today, I will:

  • Setup a basic storage bucket through tf In less than 10 minutes

Prerequisites

  • An active AWS account: Make sure to check my previous video/post where I setup a brand new AWS account and configure IAM <> tf.

I will be using this repo to run my challenges, so you’ll find all the challenges code there.

I do have to mention that you can provision an AWS S3 Bucket using the fantastic terraform-aws-modules however for the purposes of the channel, I will use the native provider resources

To see what resources you have available, you can consult the providers documentation

Terraform [OpenTofu](https://search.opentofu.org/provider/opentofu/aws/latest

Here’s the one I will do today

aws_s3_bucket

Code

Go to clouds/aws/s3-bucket and you’ll see the following files

# main.tf
terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "6.21.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  region = "eu-west-2"
}

# variables.tf
variable "prefix" {
  type = string
  default = "instantinfra"
}

# bucket.tf
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "instantinfra_bucket" {
  bucket = "${var.prefix}-bucket"
}

Once you see this, you can hit `

tf init
tf apply

And your bucket should be created.

To destroy this bucket, go and do

tf destroy