Secrets Manager Setup Using Terraform Kodekloud Engineer Task Success

Question : The Nautilus DevOps team needs to store sensitive data securely using AWS Secrets Manager. They need to create a secret with the following specifications:

1) The secret name should be datacenter-secret.

2) The secret value should contain a key-value pair with username: admin and password: Namin123.

3) Use Terraform to create the secret in AWS Secrets Manager.

The Terraform working directory is /home/bob/terraform. Create the main.tf file (do not create a different .tf file) to accomplish this task.

Note: Right-click under the EXPLORER section in VS Code and select Open in Integrated Terminal to launch the terminal.

Please Note:-  Perform the below commands based on your question server,  user name & other details that might differ as per the task.

Solution:  

1. In VS Code Editor create a new file  main.tf 

      (Refer Video below for better understanding )

Code you will get on Git Lab repository 

https://gitlab.com/nb-tech-support/devops/-/blob/master/Terraform

resource "aws_secretsmanager_secret" "datacenter-secret" { name = "datacenter-secret" } variable "example" { default = { username = "admin" password = "Namin123" } type = map(string) } resource "aws_secretsmanager_secret_version" "example" { secret_id = aws_secretsmanager_secret.datacenter-secret.id secret_string = jsonencode(var.example) }

2  Execute given below command one another.

terraform init terraform plan terraform apply

3. Click on Finish & Confirm to complete the task successful

Happy Learning!!!!

Apart from this if you need more clarity,  I have made a  tutorial video on this , 

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