Simple Terraform example to install a Dynamo DB instance to an AWS workspace. The table structure used for this outlined in this documentation Resource: aws_dynamodb_table

• AWS CLI - AWS CLI Install
• Terraform CLI installed - Terraform CLI Install

In order to not display AWS credentials stored permanently into the AWS CLI you can instead set two environment variables:

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"

Once you have set the environment variables, you can simply run:

• terraform init - sets up providers before any actions
• terraform plan -out=FILE - create and outputs the plan for the instance to a file
• terraform apply FILE - to create the instance, this performs the plan command if not defined
• terraform destroy - to destroy the instance

• If TF_IN_AUTOMATION is set to any non-empty value, Terraform adjusts its output to avoid suggesting specific commands to run next.

• You can pass the -auto-approve option to instruct Terraform to apply the plan without asking for confirmation.