Prerequisites

Requirements

Before you start, ensure you have the following:

An AWS IAM account with administrator access.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on your local machine.
SSL certificate generated for your domain/subdomain

     To generate certificate from AWS
              1> Go to Certificate manager in AWS web console
              2> On top left hand side click on list certificates
              3> Once open on the top right side click on Request
              4> Click next
              5> Type the FQDN(fully qualified domain/subdomain name eg:   abcd.domain.com)
              6> Click request
              7> Click on refresh button
              8> You should see the newely requested certificate.
              9> Click on the certificate ID
              10> Under Domain you should see the generated CNAME records
              11> Add these CNAME records to your domain manager.
              12> Once CNAME records are entered in Domain manager it should take between 1-3 hours to generate the certificates
              13> Once generated the status should show in green issued
              14> Click on certificate ID once more
              15> Find and copy the Certificate ARN

AWS CLI installed on your machine.
To install follow the below steps

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/instal

Verify AWS CLI Installation

Run the following command to check if AWS CLI is installed properly.
```
aws --version
```
You should see the version of AWS CLI installed.
Configure AWS CLI
Use the AWS configure command to set up your credentials.
```
aws configure
```
Enter your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, region, and output format when prompted.
Install terraform

 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gnupg software-properties-common

wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | \
gpg --dearmor | \
sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

Verify the key's fingerprint.

 gpg --no-default-keyring \
--keyring /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg \
--fingerprint

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] \
https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list

Download the package information from HashiCorp.

 sudo apt update

Install Terraform from the new repository.

 sudo apt-get install terraform

Verify the installation

Verify that the installation worked by opening a new terminal session and listing Terraform's available subcommands.

 terraform -help

Add any subcommand to terraform -help to learn more about what it does and available options.

 terraform -help plan

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To generate certificate from AWS 1> Go to Certificate manager in AWS web console 2> On top left hand side click on list certificates 3> Once open on the top right side click on Request 4> Click next 5> Type the FQDN(fully qualified domain/subdomain name eg: abcd.domain.com) 6> Click request 7> Click on refresh button 8> You should see the newely requested certificate. 9> Click on the certificate ID 10> Under Domain you should see the generated CNAME records 11> Add these CNAME records to your domain manager. 12> Once CNAME records are entered in Domain manager it should take between 1-3 hours to generate the certificates 13> Once generated the status should show in green issued 14> Click on certificate ID once more 15> Find and copy the Certificate ARN