Automating Terraform With Github Actions

My Workflow

A project to demonstrate how to automate terraform workflow with Github Actions.

• Login to your AWS account and generate AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
• After that, login to your Terraform Cloud account. Create a new workspace and select API-driven workflow.
• Then navigate to the Variables tab and click on Add variable. Add AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY with their respective values.
• From your Terraform Cloud User Settings, click on Tokens and generate an API token named GitHub Actions.

• Add the token to your Github repository as a secret. Name the secret TF_API_TOKEN.

• Clone and open your Github repo on your code editor.

• Checkout to a new branch with git checkout -b <branch-name>.

• Add your changes with git add . and commit the changes with a message using git commit -m "<commit-message>".

• Then push your changes with git push.

• Go back to the Github repository and generate a pull request from the new branch. You can view the status of the job through the pull request created, Actions tab or the Terraform Cloud workspace.

• Then merge the pull request.

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mariehposa / terraform-automation

Terraform Automation

A project to demonstrate how to automate terraform workflow with Github Actions.

• Github Actions after creating a pull request

• Github Actions after Merging to main branch

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development purpose.

Prerequisites

To get started with this project you need a basic knowledge of the following.

Version Control (Git)
Terraform
AWS

Automating Terraform with Github Actions

• Login to your AWS account and generate AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

• After that, login to your Terraform Cloud account. Create a new workspace and select API-driven workflow.

• Then navigate to the Variables tab and click on Add variable. Add AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY with their respective values.

• From your Terraform Cloud User Settings, click on Tokens and generate an API token named GitHub Actions.

• Add the token to your Github repository as a…

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