Guides

Overview

The Guides section covers practical workflows for working with the AWS Terraform Starter Kit, from day-to-day development to creating reusable modules.

Topics

Local Development — day-to-day commands for planning, applying, and testing infrastructure changes
Creating Modules — learn how to create and use custom Terraform modules

Quick reference

Local development cycle

# Make infrastructure changes in environments/staging/
make format                     # Format Terraform code
make validate-env ENV=staging   # Validate configuration
make plan ENV=staging           # Preview changes
make apply ENV=staging          # Deploy changes

Security scanning

make lint                      # Run TFLint
make security-scan             # Run Checkov
make validate-full             # Run all checks

Creating a module

# Create module directory
mkdir -p modules/your-module

# Add standard files
touch modules/your-module/{main.tf,variables.tf,outputs.tf,versions.tf}

# Use in environment
# environments/staging/main.tf
module "your_module" {
  source = "../../modules/your-module"
  # ...
}

For detailed workflows and examples, explore the Guides subsections.