Terraform Folder Structure

This script is following the good practices / advice of Charity Majors and Kelsey Hightower for how you separate your terraform state files and variables.

See Charity's detailed blog post here:

Charity WTF Blog - Why you want to have separate state files for each environment

Created so I could create consistent structures every time. I hope it helps.

Usage

./create-terraform-structure.sh (projectName)

Version 0.1

Creates the following structure

• A file for common variables, variables.tf used accross all environments, with simlinks in each.
• initialize.tf for empty variable definitions, with simlinks in each environment.
• Three environments: dev, staging and production.
• Three core folders:
• Global: which is for overall s3 and iam
• mgmt: for tool instances, e.g. bastion, ci, it's own vpc for network security.
• modules - here you may want to create a folder for each module.

.
├── create-terraform-structure.sh
└── projectName
    ├── initialize.tf
    ├── variables.tf
    ├── dev
    │   ├── data-storage
    │   ├── dev.tf
    │   ├── dev.tfvars
    │   ├── iam
    │   ├── initialize.tf -> projectName/initialize.tf
    │   ├── outputs.tf
    │   ├── s3
    │   ├── services
    │   │   ├── backend
    │   │   └── frontend
    │   ├── variables.tf -> projectName/variables.tf
    │   └── vpc
    ├── global
    │   ├── iam
    │   └── s3
    ├── mgmt
    │   ├── bastion-host
    │   ├── ci
    │   ├── services
    │   └── vpc
    ├── modules
    │   ├── data-storage
    │   ├── iam
    │   ├── initialize.tf -> projectName/initialize.tf
    │   ├── modules.tf
    │   ├── modules.tfvars
    │   ├── outputs.tf
    │   ├── s3
    │   ├── services
    │   │   ├── backend
    │   │   └── frontend
    │   ├── variables.tf -> projectName/variables.tf
    │   └── vpc
    ├── production
    │   ├── data-storage
    │   ├── iam
    │   ├── initialize.tf -> projectName/initialize.tf
    │   ├── outputs.tf
    │   ├── production.tf
    │   ├── production.tfvars
    │   ├── s3
    │   ├── services
    │   │   ├── backend
    │   │   └── frontend
    │   ├── variables.tf -> projectName/variables.tf
    │   └── vpc
    ├── staging
        ├── data-storage
        ├── iam
        ├── initialize.tf -> projectName/initialize.tf
        ├── outputs.tf
        ├── s3
        ├── services
        │   ├── backend
        │   └── frontend
        ├── staging.tf
        ├── staging.tfvars
        ├── variables.tf -> projectName/variables.tf
        └── vpc