Terraform Workspaces

• Generally when we write terraform configuration, we would like to create multiple environments such as
• Developer
• System Test
• Performance Test
• Staging
• Production
• For all the environments our infrastructure is same, the arguments might differ, There might be some additional resources in some environments
• To handle this we would not creat multiple copies of infrastructure and create different backend configurations.
• To deal with single template and multi environments terraform introduced a concept called workspaces. Refer Here for the official docs
• Now lets explore terraform workspace cli
  
  
• Lets try to create two workspaces
• ST => System Test
  
• UAT => Staging
  
• Refer Here for some of the changes done
• Refer Here for the fixes done to the output variable
• Select the current workspace as ST

terraform workspace select ST
terraform apply -var-file="env/ST.tfvars"

• Now lets select the current workspace as UAT

terraform workspace select UAT
terraform apply -var-file="env/UAT.tfvars"

• Refer Here for some of the changes done to accomodate multi environments
• To set the current workspace we are using terraform workspace select, the other way of doing SET TF_WORKSPACE to the active environment
• Other environmental variables of terraform Refer Here
• Exercise: Try to create all the tag with with env-<name>

tags = {
    Name = format("%s-WebSg", terraform.workspace),
    Env = terraform.workspace
}

• From CI/CD Engines when we need manage Terraform infra creation. From the Jenkins/Azure DevOps pipelines, You will have an agent/node where terraform is installed and credentials configured/passed

# if the terraform code is available in some git try to configure the git to clone 
terraform init
terraform workspace select <build-parameter>
terraform apply -var-file=<varfile> -auto-approve

• Next Steps:
• Reusable Templates => Modules => Registry
• Creating a Module and using community module