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Co-Epi / coepi-backend-aws

CoEpi API back-end implementation deployed to Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB

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Smooth onboarding for Terraform #23

Closed jmccance closed 4 years ago

jmccance commented 4 years ago

[Was getting set up this afternoon and ran into a couple bumps in the road. Hopefully this PR will help smooth those out for future contributors.]

Updates the Terraform usage and documentation to simplify onboarding.

Provide a script to create a private, encrypted S3 bucket for storing Terraform state
Use a config file to specify backend configuration so that devs can specify their bucket name once in a gitignored config file.
Update README to describe how to use the script and the backend config. Separate out infrastructure setup documentation from the main build-and-deploy loop documentation.

jmccance commented 4 years ago

@bhushanRamnani Thanks for the feedback! Updated with documentation for using local tfstate.