Introduction to using Terraform Remote Modules

By [Amanda Collins](author contact) and [Erin Atkinson](author contact)

Goals of this workshop

Understanding of:

• Types of remote modules
• Ways to invoke remote modules
• How to build a remote module
• Architecture considerations for building remote modules

Prerequisites

• Understanding of Terraform basics
• tfenv/terraform
• Remote Git account (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc.)

MacOs

brew install tfenv
cd workshop
tfenv install

Linux/Windows

Check out tfenv into any path (here is ${HOME}/.tfenv)

git clone https://github.com/tfutils/tfenv.git ~/.tfenv

Add ~/.tfenv/bin to your $PATH any way you like

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.tfenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

OR you can make symlinks for tfenv/bin/* scripts into a path that is already added to your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin) OSX/Linux Only!

ln -s ~/.tfenv/bin/* /usr/local/bin

On Ubuntu/Debian touching /usr/local/bin might require sudo access, but you can create ${HOME}/bin or ${HOME}/.local/bin and on next login it will get added to the session $PATH or by running . ${HOME}/.profile it will get added to the current shell session's $PATH.

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/
. ~/.profile
ln -s ~/.tfenv/bin/* ~/.local/bin
which tfenv

Getting started

Link to rest of workshop