jcvold/terraform-beginner-bootcamp-2023

Terraform Beginner Bootcamp 2023

https://github.com/omenking/terraform-beginner-bootcamp-2023

Weekly Journals

• Week 0 Journal
• Week 1 Journal

terraform-beginner-bootcamp-2023's Issues

Terratowns Mock Server

• Download Terratowns mock server into our repo
  https://github.com/ExamProCo/terratowns_mock_server

Assets Upload

• use for_each to upload assets
• explore different data structures in terraform
• terrafrom console

Setup Content Version

• only change files when we set a content version

Refactor Terraform CLI

There is an issue with installing the Terraform CLI.
We need to make sure it automates without user input.

AWS Terrahouse Module

• Setup directory structure for the module
• port the S3 bucket into the module

Project Root ENV Var

Set an environment variable for PROJECT_ROOT that we can reference in our bash scripts.

S3 Static Website Hosting

• Configure bucket for static website hosting
• Upload index.html
• Upload error.html
• Update outputs for static website hosting URL

CDN Implementation

• Cloudfront distribution
• Cloudfront Origin Access Policy
• Bucket policy

Restructure Root Module

• variables.tf
• outputs.tf
• main.tf
• providers.tf

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules/develop/structure

Terraform Cloud Backend

• Configure terraform cloud provider
• Create new project and workspace
• Workaround the terraform login issue
• Migrate local state to the cloud

Multi-Home Terraform Cloud

• Move state back to terraform cloud
• provision more then one terra home

refactor aws cli script

• Refactor AWS CLI into bash script
• Provide env var examples for AWS CLI requirements
• set our env vars for AWS using gp env

Generate TFRC

• Create a bash script using ChatGPT to create trfc file.
• Create new token for 30 days in Terraform Cloud

TF alias for Terraform

• Set an alias for Terraform to be tf in our bash profile

Simple S3 Bucket

• Define S# bucket in Terraform
• Use random resource string for the name
• Install AWS Terraform provider
• Configure AWS Terraform provider

Terratown Test

• Test the custom provider to work with the production server

Terratowns Provider

Terraform Random Bucket Name

• explore the terraform registry
• install the terraform random provider
• run terraform init
• generate a random S3 bucket name
• output the bucket name

Invalidate Cloudfront Distribution

• data_source for content_version
• trigger cloudfront distribution invalidation

Create Table of Contents

• Create a table of contents for our README file.
• Create journals folder
• Create week specific READMEs

Configuration Drift

• use terraform import
• purposely cause configuration drift via clickops, and correct state