Installation

Terraform Installation for Ubuntu 22.04 (My Personal Machine)

Resources Used: Terraform Docs 

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gnupg software-properties-common curl
curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"
sudo apt update && sudo apt install terraform

Verify Installation

terraform -help

Start and Destroy Nginx server per tutorial

mkdir terraform-container
cd terraform-container

Create new file called main.tf and add the following code:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    docker = {
      source  = "kreuzwerker/docker"
      version = "~> 2.13.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "docker" {}

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

resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
  image = docker_image.nginx.latest
  name  = "tutorial"
  ports {
    internal = 80
    external = 8000
  }
}

initialize project with terraform init

terraform init
terraform apply

Validation

Check localhost:8000 in your browser to verify the nginx server is up and running

Remove Container and Shutdown Nginx Server

terraform destroy