Cookiecutter Terraform

I have been wanting a more streamlined way to create my preferred style of creating a Terraform project. My preferred style is very close to what is documented in the official docs with a few modifications around how environments and backends are handled. I like to put as much configuration in source control and var files as possible. I strictly pass secrets using environment variables. I’ve attempted to do this several times in the past, and I’ve finally just used a solution that I’ve been considering for a while. It’s time to get it done, so I can start using it to speed up day-to-day tasks.

The solution I finally settled on is leveraging cookiecutter. Cookiecutter is an awesome way to template creating all kinds of projects, and it’s intuitive to use. My solution is called cookiecutter-terraform.

I hope you find it useful too.

Thanks for reading,

Jamie

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