Using the Terraform Enterprise/Cloud API to generate a Workspace, injecting Variables, connect VCS repository, assigning Policies, and trigger a run.

This allows a very simple Continuous Infrastructure Automation (CIA) pipeline consisting of only two components - A version control system and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise.

This enables:

• Programmatic generation of Terraform Workspaces and Landing Zones, respectively.
• The secure injection of secrets like cloud credentials as workspace variables (the secret-zero that enables the workflow).
• The segregation of responsibilities in the form of CIA Pipleline Publisher (admin) and Pipeline Consumer (IaC developer).

to customize your specific needs in terms of workspace to be generated, VCS repo to be assigned, policies to be used, etc...

to assign your specific terraform and environment variables. Mark them as sensitive if needed so that nobody else will ever see them. The format is: Key,Value,terraform or environment variable,HCL true/false, sensitive true/false

Finally run the tf_bootstrap_lz.sh -b script to create or re-create your infrastructure/workload based on the IaC declaration that resides in a version control system.

a) Clone the repo on your local machine (Linux/Mac)

git clone https://github.com/joestack/tfc-api-bootstrap-script.git

b) Copy the tf_bootstrap_lz.sh script into a folder that is part of your $PATH i.e. /usr/local/bin to make the script globally available on your system. You can also skip that step and run the script directly from its local folder.

cd tfc-api-bootstrap-script
chmod 755 tf_bootstrap_lz.sh 
sudo mv tf_bootstrap_lz.sh /usr/local/bin

c) Define your specific environments.conf and variables.csv within a folder and run the script to bootstrap the environment.

tf_bootstrap_lz.sh -b