Automating Terraform execution in GitHub Actions
In the previous recipe, we learned how to automate the execution of Terraform in CI/CD in Azure DevOps using the Azure Pipelines service.
In this recipe we will perform the same automation operations in another popular CI/CD system, that is, GitHub Actions.
Let’s get started!
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you’ll need to know about GitHub and GitHub Actions. In this recipe, we will just provide the YAML content of Terraform execution in GitHub Actions.
To perform this recipe, you need to have a GitHub account; the registration can be done here: https://github.com/signup. As a prerequisite, read the documentation of GitHub Actions, which is available here: https://docs.github.com/en/actions.
The goal of this recipe is to automate the execution of Terraform on an existing Terraform configuration, which we learned about in Chapter 12, Deep-Diving into Terraform, in the recipe Generating a self...