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Applying the Terraform plan

Applying the Terraform plan

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Applying the Terraform plan

- [Instructor] Now that we've initialized Terraform, we can go ahead and do a Terraform plan, which is basically a preview of the deployment that Terraform is going to do before it does it. We're going to run Terraform plan. Same way we did init, except instead of init we are going to do plan. And now it's asking us for some information. The way that the AWS provider within Terraform works is that it asks for a few things, it asks for credentials, so an axis key ID, and a secret axis key, as well as the region in which Terraform needs to deploy stuff into. AWS is available all over the world. They have data centers all over the world, and you can think of those collections of data centers as regions, so for example, us-east-1 here would be a region that happens to run in northern Virginia, and all of those data centers are in this region. Within the region they have several different data centers. If AWS just had one per…

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