Terraform Best Practices Workshop materials

The goal of this workshop is to become familiar with some of the best practices using Terraform, discover existing solutions, Terraform modules, and tools.

This workshop is a practical hands-on addition to Terraform Best Practices guide, which has been created and provided by Anton Babenko. Some rights reserved.

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Attendee's checklist

Follow @antonbabenko on GitHub, Twitter, Linkedin.
Join chat room on Gitter during or before the workshop - gitter.im/terraform-best-practices-workshop/Lobby.
Install the latest version of Terraform 0.13.
Install the latest version of AWS CLI.
Make sure that you have a GitHub account created.
Mac, Linux or Windows - all is fine as long as you can use it. If you want, you can get a Linux box running using Vagrant+VirtualBox and install software from above on it.
Access credentials to manage resources in the workshop's AWS account will be provided at the beginning of it (if requested by attendees).

"Terraform AWS modules" workshop goal

Learn how to manage AWS infrastructure using existing building blocks - terraform-aws-modules.

Agenda

Terraform AWS modules are a collection of reusable building blocks of AWS infrastructure supported by the community.
Explore Terraform Registry and check out terraform-aws-modules listed there.
Task "Basic Terraform". Read tasks/0-basic/README.md for more details.
Task "Network Stack" - VPC, Autoscaling, Security Group, ELB, ALB, RDS. Read tasks/1-network/README.md for more details.
Task "IAM resources" - IAM users, groups, permissions, roles, multiple AWS accounts, assuming roles.
Task "Working with Terraform in a team using Atlantis" - Setup Atlantis to run on AWS Fargate using terraform-aws-atlantis module and integrate it with infrastructure repository.

Resources

Official Terraform documentation
Terraform AWS provider documentation
pre-commit-terraform to have Terraform code automatically formatted before committing.
terraform-docs to have documentation for variables and outputs automatically updated before committing.
Slides for many of my talks and training are available here.

Instructor's checklist

Verify access to a workshop AWS account (905033465232), S3 bucket for remote states (tfworkshop), DynamoDB table for locking (tfworkshop). Region - eu-west-1.
Before workshop - create IAM users and IAM group (developers) by running cd bootstrap-workshop && terraform init && terraform apply.
After workshop - remove all resources in the whole AWS account by running cd bootstrap-workshop && make aws-nuke-for-real or remove just IAM users and IAM group by running cd bootstrap-workshop && terraform init && terraform destroy.