terraform_backend

Terraform Backend

A backend defines where Terraform stores its state data files. This folder is used to setup a remote backend for the infrastructure Terraform code of the EC2 instance. The state files are stored in a S3 bucket, and the lock synchronization is implemented with a Dynamo DB table.

• Instructions
  • Install Terraform
  • Initialize terraform locally if it isn't initialized yet
  • Create the backend resources (S3 bucket, etc)
  • Destroy the backend resources (optional)

Instructions

Install Terraform

Terraform is required to run the following instructions. It can be installed, or used from Docker.

Define the necessary AWS keys as environment variables

# Always required:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="AFG..."
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="ASR..."

# May be necessary:
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="WIo..."

Initialize terraform locally if it isn't initialized yet

terraform init

Create the backend resources (S3 bucket, etc)

terraform apply

Destroy the backend resources (optional)

terraform destroy