Terraform aws: Error No configuration files found

Question

I am new to Terraform. I am writing a small script to put a small datafile from my machine to aws S3 bucket.. but I am getting below error.

Terraform file code:-

provider "aws" {
  region  = "us-east-1"
  version = "~> 1.6"
}

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
    bucket     = "${var.bucket_testing}"
    kms_key_id = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:12345678900:key/12312313ed-34sd-6sfa-90cvs-1234asdfasd"
    key     = "testexport/exportFile.tfstate"
    region  = "us-east-1"
    encrypt = true
  }
}

data "aws_s3_bucket" "pr-ip" {
  bucket = "${var.bucket_testing}"
}

resource "aws_s3_bucket_object" "put_file" {
  bucket = "${data.aws_s3_bucket.pr-ip.id}"
  key    = "${var.file_path}/${var.file_name}"
  source = "src/Datafile.txt"
  etag = "${md5(file("src/Datafile.txt"))}"

  kms_key_id = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:12345678900:key/12312313ed-34sd-6sfa-90cvs-1234asdfasd"
  server_side_encryption = "aws:kms"
}

Error on Terminal

terraform init

Terraform initialized in an empty directory!

The directory has no Terraform configuration files. You may begin working
with Terraform immediately by creating Terraform configuration files.

$ terraform apply

Error: No configuration files found!

Apply requires configuration to be present. Applying without a configuration
would mark everything for destruction, which is normally not what is desired.
If you would like to destroy everything, please run 'terraform destroy' instead
which does not require any configuration files.

Also I have setup my default AWS Access Key ID and value.

Please help. Thanks!!

Answer 1

This error means that you have run the command in the wrong place. You have to be in the directory that contains your configuration files, so before running init or apply you have to cd to your Terraform project folder.