That these have been successfully installed you can check with aws -version and terraform -version in your preferred terminal.Īdditionally, aws needs to be configured by typing: aws configure.

I am not going to go into details here because different operating systems might have different steps on how to do it, so I suggest you follow the official documentation for your system. Two things need to be done before we can see terraform in action.

Prerequisites for trying out terraform for configuring Rstudio server I think this is awesome.Īdditionally, terraform works with all major cloud providers, so if you prefer to use something else insted of aws you can adapt the code. And since these instructions live in text files, you can have them versioned with git, and keep track of any changes over time. It is a tool to write infrastructure as code, or more descriptively, as human readable instructions to define resources that can be run on any cloud provider. Then, some time after that, you need to spin up a new instance, and have to go through all of the manual clicking through the AWS console described before.Įnter terraform. Kept the EC2 for some time and then decided to terminate it, since after all, even stopped, it still incurs some costs. In the previous post I wrote about how to spin up a EC2 instance with Rstudio server, so some of the more computational heavy R processing can be moved on AWS infrastructure.

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