Hey there, Gurus! Welcome to the lab! This lab will demonstrate how to set up Terraform to use remote state. We will first set up our S3 bucket where we want to store our state file. We will then set up a locking table in DynamoDB, then we will create our remote backend configuration and deploy our resources. We will then end the lab by checking to make sure our state file was written to our S3 bucket successfully. Let’s get started!
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Environment Setup
- Log in to your lab provided AWS Management Console.
- Create an S3 bucket called
twinkiestatebucket<RANDOM_NUMBER>. - Create a DynamoDB table called
terraformstatelockwith a partition key namedLockID. - In the terminal, once logged in to your instance, change to the
Remote_Statedirectory.
- Add Backend Configuration
- In the
Remote_Statedirectory, edit thebackend.tffile and add in your S3 bucket name, region, and DynamoDB table name. - In the
Remote_Statedirectory, edit themain.tffile and add your Subnet ID. - Initialize your working directory.
- Deploy your resources.
- In the
- Confirm Remote Backend Status
- Check your working directory for the state file.
- Check your S3 bucket for your state file.
