Deploying a postgresql database instance on aws with terraform

So I needed to get the postgresql instance deployed on aws with terraform. I know it is easier to get this done via aws cli or python boto3 but it is easier with terraform. It is supposed to be non coder friendly. You do however need to search a lot online and official github and documentation.

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provider "aws" { access_key = "ACCESS_KEY" secret_key = "SECRET_KEY" region = "us-east-1" } resource "random_string" "password" { length = 30 special = true number = true lower = true upper = true } resource "aws_db_instance" "default" { allocated_storage = 10 storage_type = "gp2" engine = "postgres" engine_version = "9.5" instance_class = "db.t2.micro" name = "postgres" username = "postgres" password = "${random_string.password.result}" }

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1 you are telling hashicorp terraform about where this should be deployed.
2. access key which you can take it from aws console while you were creating the user
3. secret key which you can take it from aws console while you were creating the user
4. if you know aws then you know what it is. You can choose whatever region you want for this testing purpose though.
7-13. This is a terraform's feature to generate a random string and here we have used some parameters from https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/random/r/string.html which basically creates a random string of 30 characters and it mandates that this string should contain special, numbers, lower case and upper case letters.
15-24. Here you are telling terraform about what resource to deploy. In our case it is "aws_db_instance".
23. Uses the password generated by the code from 7-13 for the psql instance.
Now I have got to change the provider to IBM cloud and use hashicorp's vault for credentials management. That will be another blog when I figure it out.