container.training/slides/terraform/quickstart.md

Quick start

• We're going to use Terraform to deploy a basic Kubernetes cluster

• We will need cloud credentials (make sure you have a valid cloud account!)

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Steps

1. Install Terraform (download single Go binary)

2. Configure credentials (e.g. gcloud auth login)

3. Create Terraform configuration

4. Add providers to the configuration

5. Initialize providers with terraform init

6. Add resources to the configuration

7. Realize the resources with terraform apply

8. Repeat 6-7 or 4-5-6-7