Terraform CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions
Terraform CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions Learn how to automate Terraform workflows with GitHub Actions and improve your Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. TL;DR Understand the benefits of automating Terraform workflows. Set up a Terraform CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions. Learn how to use Terraform Actions to automate Terraform workflows. Deploy to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) using GitHub Actions. Why Automate Terraform Workflows? As discussed in "The Ephemeral Infrastructure Paradox" , automating Terraform workflows is crucial to manage the identities of short-lived systems. This article will focus on automating Terraform workflows with GitHub Actions. Terraform and GitHub Actions GitHub Actions is a powerful tool that allows us to automate software development workflows directly in our repository. Terraform, on the other hand, is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that enables us to manage our infrastructur...