CI/CD for releases

expected time	requirements
30 minutes	A computer with Terraform installed, terraform knowledge.

Goal: Setup CI/CD for Terraform releases.

Explanation

When you’ve used Terraform modules, you can start to integrate different modules into a root-module. The pipeline looks quite similar to the Terraform module pipeline.

Howto

This howto is specific for bitbucket, from the CI/CD for Modules chapter, you can steal code for GitHub and continue to develop.

Start with a bitbucket-pipelines.yml:

---
image: hashicorp/terraform:full

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
      script:
        - terraform init

In this case, we want to also plan and apply. BitBucket needs to pass some secrets to Terraform in order to connect to the configured providers.

Assignment

• Write a pipeline to apply terraform code. Use a manual step after all verification steps (validate, lint, etc) are done.

Questions

1. What’s different to this pipeline compared to the module pipeline?

Solution

• GitLab