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Redshift cluster is expensive to run so the idea behind this article is to create and destroy a redshift cluster using terraform.

Contents:

• create VPC

• Configure IAM Role

• Secret-Manager Setup

• create Redshift Cluster

• demo

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Network,

IAM,

secret-manager,

cluster,

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Please check this link for the code.

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Time for hands-on,

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply --auto-approve

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Clean Up All,

terraform destroy --auto-approve

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Summary

You can now apply and destroy a terraform cluster.

Redshift pricing is very high, so always make sure you either pause or destroy the cluster when you do need it.