Terraform GitLab on AWS

1. Installations

1.1 Windows

Terraform Guide

• Installation Link
• Click the “Chocolatey on Windows” tab. Manual installation did not work for me
• Make sure to run as Administrator using Command Prompt

Chocolaty install

• Installation link
• Install in PowerShell. Run as Administrator

Install terraform-docs

• Use Chocolaty to install. Run on Command Prompt. Link

  choco install terraform-docs

2. Instructions

1. Run terraform init in each environment’s folder
2. Run terraform get in the environment’s folder to register the local modules
3. Run terraform validate to check for syntax errors. Run terraform fmt to format code
4. Run terraform plan to understand the changes made
5. Run terraform apply -var-file="terraform.tfvars" to run with the variables file (Create this file based on terraform.template.tfvars provided)
   Note: If we want to skip the prompt do terraform apply -var-file="terraform.tfvars" -auto-approve
   Note: If we want to target only certain resources, we can do terraform apply -var-file="terraform.tfvars" -target module.eks
6. Run terraform destroy after deployment if used for testing

3. Directory Structure and best practices

The following links were used to provide guidance on the Directory Structure

• @njfix6/using-terraform-at-a-production-level-ec1705a19d82">Medium: Using Terraform at a Production Level
• Terraform docs: Creating Modules
• GitHub repo: Large-size infrastructure using Terraform

Best practices for naming conventions

• Terraform docs: Naming conventions

Code Styling

• Terraform docs: Code styling
• GitHub: terraform-docs
• Article: Automatic Terraform documentation with terraform-docs
• Run terraform-docs markdown . > README.md to generate documentation
• For the main file I use terraform-docs markdown . --no-providers > README.md because somehow my provider was showing up in requirements instead
• For modules I use terraform-docs markdown . --no-providers --no-requirements > README.md

Using modules

• @brikis98?source=post_page-----25526d65f73d----------------------">How to create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules

4. Interesting bash tips

Getting part of the output of a command in bash

Refer to this link

Example: This command refers to the first output of the second line

kubectl get secrets | awk 'NR==2{print $1}'

Storing the output of a command in bash in a variable to be referenced elsewhere in a bash file

Refer to this link

Example

token_name=$(kubectl get secrets | awk 'NR==2{print $1}')