Table of Contents

1. Challenge

   Create an Instance

   1. From Google Cloud console's main navigation, choose Compute Engine.
   2. Click Create.
   3. Give your instance a name.
   4. Change the boot disk to CentOS 7.
   5. Click Create.
2. Challenge

   Log in to the Instance via SSH and Download Terraform

   1. From Google Cloud navigation, choose Compute Engine.

   2. In the main window pane, click Create.

   3. Name your instance terraform-instance.

   4. In the Boot disk section, click Change.

   5. Set Operating system to CentOS.

   6. Set Version to CentOS 7.

   7. Click Select.

   8. Click Create.

   9. Click SSH next to terraform-instance.

   10. Install necessary updates:

       sudo yum update -y
       

       sudo yum install wget unzip -y
       

   11. Download Terraform:

       wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.23/terraform_0.12.23_linux_amd64.zip
       

   12. Unzip the file:

       unzip terraform_0.12.23_linux_amd64.zip
       

   13. Move Terraform to a directory called temp:

       mkdir temp/
       

       mv terraform temp/
       

   14. Input the path to communicate with Terraform into the /etc profile file:

       echo "PATH='$PATH:~/temp/'" >> .bash_profile
       

   15. Use the following in order to be able to call Terraform:

       source .bash_profile
       

   16. Call Terraform:

       terraform