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About IaC Foundations

The IaC Foundations component is focused on:

  • Teaching you the considerations to think about when coming up with your foundational Terraform and Terragrunt patterns
  • Giving you a fully configured set of git repositories with an initial folder structure

IaC foundations considerations​

When creating your initial Terraform and Terragrunt and infrastructure, there are a number of patterns you need to consider how to solve. These include:

  • How to create the backend (e.g. S3 bucket) for storing Terraform state
  • How to structure your folder hierarchy
  • How to handle tagging and labels
  • Whether to use branches per environment
  • How to handle global variables
  • How to handle module default values

Initial setup​

We provide 3 template repos to subscribers that implement best practices regarding the considerations above.

For each of the repositories below, navigate to the template repository and select Use this template -> Create a new Repository. This will initiate repository creation. You should select your org as the owner, add a description if you like, make sure you are creating a private repo, and click Create repository.

The repository template will be created, and you can follow the instructions in the README to bootstrap your IaC Foundations.

Infrastructure Live Template​

This template creates an infrastructure live repository with scaffolding for common module defaults, account baselines, and Gruntwork Pipelines

Infrastructure Modules Template​

This template creates an empty infrastructure modules repository for populating shared modules within your organization.

Infrastructure Pipelines Template​

This template is only necessary if you plan on implementing Gruntwork Pipelines.