Create AWS Cloudfront Distribution using Terraform

In this post, we’ll create the AWS Cloudfront Distribution using Terraform and for this, we need the latest version of Terraform.

Terraform v0.6.15

• Complete Cloudfront Terraform Plan as gist
• Complete Variables as gist

Before using the terraform, we need to export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

How to compile a development version of Terraform

In this tutorial I’ll describe all the steps to build the development version of Terraform. At the end of this process, it will generate a set of binaries for each supported platforms(Linux, Mac OS X, Windows etc..).

First we need to clone the terraform’s github offical repo:

git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git

Move inside the cloned repo:

cd terraform