Managing GitHub with Terraform

There're many service providers to use with Terraform. GitHub is one of them, and we'll see how to manage members of an organization, various teams, and control repository access, right from our infrastructure code. That way, we have an automatic history log of who accesses what.

Getting ready

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

• A working Terraform installation

• A GitHub account (with an API token)

• An Internet connection

How to do it…

We want to manage a GitHub organization named ACME. Here are the users and their groups:

GitHub username	GitHub team name	Membership level	Team privacy
John	Documentation	member	closed
Jane	Engineering	admin	secret

Here's the policy we decided concerning the Git repository named infrastructure-repository:

GitHub team name	Repository permissions
Documentation	pull
Engineering	admin

Configuring GitHub

Let's start by creating a github provider, as we used an aws provider for AWS in the previous recipes...