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Interview Starter

This is to provide a foundation which interview candidates can build terraform projects on top of.

Init:

Without Role Assumption:

terraform init -backend-config=./init-tfvars/dev.tfvars

With MFA Role Assumption:

awsudo -u \<profile\> terraform init -backend-config=./init-tfvars/dev.tfvars 

Apply:

Without Role Assumption:

terraform apply -var-file ./apply-tfvars/dev.tfvars

With MFA Role Assumption:

awsudo -u \<profile\> terraform apply -var-file ./apply-tfvars/dev.tfvars

Tools to use

• awsudo
• tfenv (if using multiple versions of terraform)

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Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	~> 1.7.5
aws	>= 5.44.0

Resources

Name	Type

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
access_key	AWS access key	string	""	no
account_numbers	Whitelisted account numbers to apply terraform code in. Can apply in any if left blank.	list(string)	[]	no
append_name_suffix	String to append to the name_suffix used on object names. This is optional, so start with dash if using like so: -mysuffix. This will result in prefix-objectname-env-mysuffix	string	""	no
aws_profile	AWS Profile credentials to use	string	""	no
developer	name of developer who has written this code	string	n/a	yes
env_name	Environment name string to be used for decisions and name generation. Appended to name_suffix to create full_suffix	string	n/a	yes
name_prefix	String to use as prefix on object names	string	n/a	yes
override_name_suffix	String to completely override the name_suffix	string	""	no
prepend_name_suffix	String to prepend to the name_suffix used on object names. This is optional, so start with dash if using like so: -mysuffix. This will result in prefix-objectname-mysuffix-env	string	""	no
region	AWS Region to target	string	n/a	yes
secret_key	AWS secret key	string	""	no
source_repo	name of repo which holds this code	string	n/a	yes
token	MFA Token retrieved with sts get-session-token	string	""	no

Outputs

Name	Description
account_id	Account which terraform was run on
aws_region	AWS region
common_tags	tags which should be applied to all taggable objects
name_prefix	string to prepend to all resource names
name_suffix	string to append to all resource names

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Note, manual changes to the README will be overwritten when the documentation is updated. To update the documentation, run terraform-docs -c .config/.terraform-docs.yml