Question about others backends about learn-terraform-github-actions

[im2nguyen]

Thanks for going through the tutorial!

The Deploy Terraform infrastructure with CircleCI describes the use case you're looking for. This tutorial implements the concepts touched on in the Running Terraform in Automation tutorial.

If you've configured Terraform with S3 backend, it'll use the state in the S3 bucket to generate the plan. To simulate a "remote plan", you want to create a pipeline broken down into two main steps.

1. Initialize configuration and generate plan terraform plan -out tfapply -var-file variables.tfvars
2. Use terraform apply -auto-approve tfapply to apply the plan binary generated from step 1

I highly recommend reading the two tutorials linked above. If you have any addition questions, I'm happy to help!

[im2nguyen]

This issue #24 touches adding a manual approval process.

You can also try Terraform Cloud. It has a free tier with remote plan/state, GitHub integrations, and more. This tutorial walks you through migrating your current configuration to Terraform Cloud.

[ricardo-f]

Nice, thanks for the tips :)