Terraform NGINX Install

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Terraform NGINX webserver setup

Steps Involved:

• ✅ Install using homebrew
• ✅ Update Homebrew
• ✅ Upgrade Homebrew to run the latest version of Terraform
• ✅ Verify the installation
• ✅ Enable tab completion
• ✅ Install the autocomplete package
• ✅ Download Docker Desktop for Mac
• ✅ Start Docker Desktop
• ✅ Create Directory for files
• ✅ Change Directory (cd) into the directory
• ✅ create main.tf file
• ✅ nano into the file
• ✅ Place configuration code inside file
• ✅ Initialize the project
• ✅ Provision the NGINX server container with apply
• ✅ Confirm with yes
• ✅ Verify NGINX container by visiting localhost:8000 or run Docker ps in terminal
• ✅ to stop and destroy the container run terraform destroy in terminal
• ✅ These are the steps to provision and destroy a NGINX webserver with Terraform

Initial Terraform Configuration file inside the main.tf file

terraform {
  required_providers {
    docker = {
      source  = "kreuzwerker/docker"
      version = "~> 3.0.1"
    }
  }
}

provider "docker" {}

resource "docker_image" "nginx" {
  name         = "nginx"
  keep_locally = false
}

resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
  image = docker_image.nginx.image_id
  name  = "tutorial"

  ports {
    internal = 80
    external = 8000
  }
}