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/):

Team workflow example

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 ...

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