Getting ready

To get started, we will start with a main.tf file that contains the following Terraform configuration:

As we can see, this code is not very readable; it needs to be better formatted.

To execute Terraform commands with the CLI, we use a command-line terminal (CMD, PowerShell, Bash, and so on) and the execution folder will be the folder containing the Terraform configuration of the recipe. This will apply to all recipes in this chapter.