How to configure terraform state file as Amazon S3

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In this blog post, I would like to present how to create terraform state file as s3. I will be writing series of blog posts about terraform, ansible automation, How to use AWS CDK to automate infrastructure.

To begin with, Let us start about how to configure terraform state file as Amazon S3.

Before you configure terraform state, you need to make sure terraform install. For more details about how to install terraform you may refer here

Create s3 bucket (You can do this by using aws console or aws cli)

I’ve used eu-west-1 region for creating bucket if you are using default region us-east-1 then you do not need to mention region, Locationconstraint.

Example with default region (us-east-1)

aws s3api create-bucket –bucket terraformstateinfo2020

Now, let’s create backed terraform file

Vim backend.tf

terraform {
required_version = “>=0.13.0”
backend “s3” {
region = “eu-west-1”
profile = “default”
key = “terraformstatefile”
bucket = ” terraformstateinfo2020″
}
}

Let us run terraform init command to see if the terraform state is configured!

You can check the state file locally as below. At this moment you don’t have any information except bucket name.

cd .terraform

Hope you enjoyed the post.

Cheers

Ramasankar Molleti

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