Repository for playing around with multiple different AWS services, as well as potentially deploying lightweight application on said cloud services.

• Terraform
• AWS CLI
• AWS Account

• Switch Payment Currency Preference to GBP from USD
• Enable Activate IAM Access to allow IAM entities to be able to look at billing
• Enable MFA for Root User
• Generate Access Keys for Root Account (Delete afterwards, required for setting up initial IAM Users/Groups)
• Install aws on local device, then enter aws configure to link AWS Account to local device

For deploying a resource, navigate to the resource, app and the region to deploy to. To ensure that no resource names are committed to source control, each app and region has variable files set to dynamically populate the main.tf files. To set the variable values, create a file named secret.tfvars and backend.hcl to store the variable values for the main.tf and for the backend configuration.

Worth stating for the example below, you will need to remove backend from the main.tf if the s3 bucket and dynamo db table has not been created. This allows for the bucket and table to be created for storing terraform state files, and state locks.

$ cd s3/tf-state-bucket/primary
$ vim secret.tfvars
> terraform_bucket_name = test-state-bucket-euw2
> terraform_dynamo_table = tf-state-lock-table

$ vim backend.hcl
> terraform_bucket_name = test-state-bucket-euw2
> terraform_dynamo_table = tf-state-lock-table

$ terraform init -backend-config=backend.hcl
$ terraform plan -var-file=secret.tfvars
$ terraform apply -var-file=secret.tfvars