Create Key Pair Using Terraform

Tasks:

1. Use Terraform to create an RSA key pair named xfusion-kp.

2. Store the private key file in /home/bob/xfusion-kp.pem.

3. The Terraform working directory is /home/bob/terraform.

4. Use only main.tf to define the configuration.

Steps

1

Create main.tf file

resource "tls_private_key" "ssh_key" {
     algorithm = "RSA"
     rsa_bits  = 4096
   }

   resource "aws_key_pair" "xfusion_key" {
     key_name   = "xfusion-kp"
     public_key = tls_private_key.ssh_key.public_key_openssh
   }

   resource "local_file" "private_key" {
     content  = tls_private_key.ssh_key.private_key_pem
     filename = "/home/bob/xfusion-kp.pem"
   }

We already have provider.tf

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "5.91.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  region                      = "us-east-1"
  skip_credentials_validation = true
  skip_requesting_account_id  = true
  s3_use_path_style = true

endpoints {
    ec2            = "http://aws:4566"
    apigateway     = "http://aws:4566"
    cloudformation = "http://aws:4566"
    cloudwatch     = "http://aws:4566"
    dynamodb       = "http://aws:4566"
    es             = "http://aws:4566"
    firehose       = "http://aws:4566"
    iam            = "http://aws:4566"
    kinesis        = "http://aws:4566"
    lambda         = "http://aws:4566"
    route53        = "http://aws:4566"
    redshift       = "http://aws:4566"
    s3             = "http://aws:4566"
    secretsmanager = "http://aws:4566"
    ses            = "http://aws:4566"
    sns            = "http://aws:4566"
    sqs            = "http://aws:4566"
    ssm            = "http://aws:4566"
    stepfunctions  = "http://aws:4566"
    sts            = "http://aws:4566"
    rds            = "http://aws:4566"
  }
}

2

Initalize terraform

terraform init

3

Terraform apply with auto approve flag

terraform apply -auto-approve

4

Check out the pem file

ls -l /home/bob/xfusion-kp.pem

5

Give permission to pem file

chmod 400 /home/bob/xfusion-kp.pem