Terraform

The Digital Team use terraform to manage the AWS configuration.

Terraform is a CLI utility synchronizes AWS with scripts. In essence, it uses a series of scripts to detect and make changes to AWS. Terraform commands are run from a terminal session on a machine with Terraform libraries installed. See website: See documentation

Installing Terraform

• Terraform installation instructions are here, and tutorials are here.

• Terraform AWS provider info can be found here.

• Once Terraform is installed, clone a local copy of the digital-terraform repository and switch to the production branch.

• Terraform commands (typically plan, apply and import) can be run from a shell from the cloned repo/apps folder .