Exercise 1.8 – Create a Linux user using Terraform

Terraform File:

resource “null_resource” “user” {

  provisioner “local-exec” {

    command = “useradd demo”

  }

}

Use terraform init command to initialize the provider.

Check the changes using the terraform plan command.

Terraform plan 

To apply those changes use terraform apply command.

terraform apply

Check if the user is created or not using the id command.

$ id demo

uid=1001(demo) gid=1001(demo) groups=1001(demo)

Task by Trainer:

Task 5:

Create a Linux user harry.