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Setup and Run Web App on Terraform using Docker

Terraform brings configuration orchestration systems to next level and is one of the trending one in its field. It supports humongous number of providers to choose from which makes setting up any kind of project on any platform so easy. But, here we are focused on using Docker as a provider and will try to use combination of Docker and Terraform to create a magic. Prerequisite: No prior knowledge of Terraform required since we will be doing everything from scratch but you need to know the basics of Docker though.

We will now apply all the configuration and create resources specified in the main.tf file using the following command: This command will start creating the resource, which is docker container in our case.