Using Terraform to create a Swarm cluster in AWS

We'll start by redefining the environment variables we used with Packer in case you start this section in a new terminal session:

cd terraform/awsexport AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[...]export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[...]export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1

Please replace [...] with the actual values.

Terraform does not force us to have any particular file structure. We can define everything in a single file. However, that does not mean that we should. Terraform configs can get big, and separation of logical sections into separate files is often a good idea. In our case, we'll have three tf files. The terraform/aws/variables.tf (https://github.com/vfarcic/cloud-provisioning/blob/master/terraform/aws/variables.tf ...

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