How to Add an AWS IAM User Using Terraform

Infrastructure as code has become a popular way to manage cloud resources. Terraform is an open-source tool that allows you to write, plan, and create infrastructure as code. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of adding an IAM user using Terraform. Here’s an article on how to install terraform on Windows.

Before we begin, make sure you have the following:

To create an IAM user resource, you will need to add the following code to your Terraform configuration file:

Once you have created the user, you will need to assign permissions to the user. You can do this by creating an IAM policy and attaching it to the user.

To create a policy, add the following code to your Terraform configuration file:

Next, we need to attach the policy to the user. We can do this by adding the following code to our configuration file:

Once you have added the code to your Terraform configuration file, you can apply the changes by running the following command:

Terraform will ask you to confirm the changes before applying them. Once you confirm, Terraform will create the IAM user and attach the policy.

In this article, we walked through the process of adding an IAM user using Terraform. We created an IAM user resource and attached an IAM policy to the user to give them permissions. Terraform makes it easy to manage infrastructure as code, and by using it to manage IAM users, you can easily create and manage users with specific permissions in a repeatable and automated way.

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