Lab Setup

• Objective
• Lab
  • Create Lab Directory and Blank Files
• Review

Objective

Create and initialize an empty Terraform Project.

Lab

For the remainder of this lesson we need to set up a new Terraform project. The following shell commands will create a new folder and populate 3 empty files

Create Lab Directory and Blank Files

Execute

mkdir basics
cd basics
touch {main,variables,outputs}.tf

Review

In this step we have created an empty Terraform project. Nothing has happened yet but we will be able to use this project to explore the core concepts.