Using integrated cost estimation for cloud resources
When we create resources in a cloud architecture, we often tend to forget that this incurs a financial cost that depends on the types of resources that are created. This is even more true with automation and IaC, which allow us to create a multitude of resources using a few commands.
One of the interesting features of Terraform Cloud is cost estimation, which makes it possible to visualize the cost of the resources that are handled in the Terraform configuration while it’s being run.
In this recipe, we will learn how to use cost estimation in Terraform Cloud.
Getting ready
Before you start this recipe, you must have a Terraform Cloud organization and have created a project and workspace with VCS linked to a GitHub repository as we learned in the recipe Managing workspaces in Terraform Cloud in this chapter. Also, the execution mode of the workspace is configured as remote execution. For this recipe, the created...