jakeprice-me / terraform-github

Terraform Configuration for My GitHub Repositories.

Terraform GitHub Configuration

I use GitHub to create and maintain my repositories (because why the heck not?!)...

Terraform Variables

The GitHub Terraform provider requires an access token to be able to perform operations against GitHub. This should be stored in a terraform.tfvars file, and not committed to version control.

It needs to have repo and delete_repo permissions.

Create terraform.tfvars and add the below variable, with a token from here.

token = "<github-access-token>

Import Existing Repository

Sometimes I forget that I use Terraform for creating repo's, so when I remember I often have to run an import operation to import the manually created repository into the Terraform state file, example below.

terraform import github_repository.example example

Terraform State

You'd be silly to not commit your terraform.tfvars file to version control but then go ahead and commit your terraform.tfstate, so I don't do that! This is my own personal infrastructure, so I keep the Terraform state file backed up elsewhere.