LAB: Terraform Provisioners (EC2 + remote-exec + file)

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Learn to provision an EC2 instance using Terraform and automatically execute a script on it

intermediate Published 2 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Create an AWS EC2 instance using Terraform
  2. Configure a remote-exec provisioner to upload a script to the instance
  3. Use the file provisioner to upload a file to the EC2 instance
  4. Execute the uploaded script automatically using the remote-exec provisioner
  5. Test the provisioned EC2 instance and verify the script execution
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and cloud administrators can benefit from this tutorial to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment

Key Insight

💡 Terraform provisioners can automate tasks on provisioned infrastructure, such as uploading and executing scripts

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Learn to provision an EC2 instance using Terraform and automatically execute a script on it

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