Deploying an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) Using Terraform

2026-03-03T10:28:07+00:00

If you’ve tried building an ALB manually in the AWS Console, you already know the drill create a VPC, configure subnets, set up security groups, launch EC2 instances, create a target group, add listeners, and then double check everything because one small misconfiguration can break the whole setup. It works, but it’s time consuming and not something you want to repeat every time you need a fresh environment. This is exactly where Terraform shines. Instead of clicking through multiple AWS console pages, you define your infrastructure in code and let Terraform handle the provisioning. Need to rebuild the lab? Just [...]