Technical requirements

As you will be building your own cluster within this section, there are some requirements that we need to address. However, we'll be building everything in AWS, so all you really need is the ability to run Terraform from your command-line environment. I'll be using macOS, but Terraform can run in most desktop operating systems. Over the next few sections, we'll be setting up what you need within AWS and downloading the necessary HashiCorp tools. In order to work together as we proceed, you're going to want to create an AWS account if you don't already have one. We're going to be using AWS to create and manage the infrastructure throughout the process. An effort has been made to ensure that the costs of setting up this infrastructure are minimal, but there are a few things to be aware of, such as the following:

• Always perform a terraform destroy operation when you are done for the day. This does mean you'll have to rebuild...