Elastic IP Variable Setup Using Terraform Kodekloud Engineer Task Success

 Question : The Nautilus DevOps team is strategizing the migration of a portion of their infrastructure to the AWS cloud. As part of this phased migration approach, they need to allocate an Elastic IP address to support external access for specific workloads.

For this task, create an AWS Elastic IP using Terraform with the following requirement:

The Elastic IP name datacenter-eip should be stored in a variable named KKE_eip. The Terraform working directory is /home/bob/terraform.

Note:

The configuration values should be stored in a variables.tf file.

The Terraform script should be structured with a main.tf file referencing variables.tf.

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

Main.tf

# Create the AWS Elastic IP resource "aws_eip" "datacenter_eip" { domain = "vpc" tags = { Name = var.KKE_eip } }

Varilables.tf

variable "KKE_eip" { description = "The name tag for the Nautilus Elastic IP" type = string default = "datacenter-eip" }

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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