Team workflow example

Working with infrastructure code is very similar to working with software code. Countless books and methods exist on the subject and approaches are usually very opinionated.

A simple workflow I propose to use here for our infrastructure-as-code work is based on what's called the GitHub Flow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/):

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

• An account on some Git hosting (self-hosted or commercial)

• A working Terraform installation

• An AWS account with an SSH key configured in Terraform (refer to the Chapter 2, Provisioning IaaS with Terraform recipes)

• An Internet connection

How to do it…

Start by creating a new repository for use with your team. Use any service that works for you: GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, and others. This example uses GitHub.

A simple Git repository

Create a new repository on GitHub:

Note

We might be storing secrets in that repository, such as SSH private keys or passwords. It's probably a safer...