Create Terraform Infrastructure with Docker

main.tf

 terraform {
   required_providers {
     docker = {
       source  = "kreuzwerker/docker"
       version = "~> 2.15.0"
     }
   }
 }

 provider "docker" {}

 resource "docker_image" "nginx" {
   name         = "nginx:latest"
   keep_locally = false
 }

 resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
   image = docker_image.nginx.latest
   name  = "tutorial"
   ports {
     internal = 80
     external = 8000
   }
 }

terraform init

terraform apply

docker ps

terraform destroy

See also

• Terraform, OpenTofu, Terrakube.org, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos