AWS Terraform Dev Container

A VSCode Dev Container with tools to help you build and manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform


Develop your project in a Docker container


Increase productivity with well-defined `Make` commands


Ensure every team member has all the tools on their correct versions


Extensions already installed for you

Getting Started

On a terminal, inside your Terraform project, execute the following on Mac, Linux or WSL:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/aws-terraform-dev-container/main/scripts/init.sh | bash

To reopen in container manually, open the command pallete on VS Code and select Rebuild and Reopen in Container

A list of things you need, or how to install them.

Docker - The fastest way to containerize applications
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
VSCode Remote Development Extension Pack - An extension pack that lets you open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, or in WSL and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.

make [tab][tab]

For example, if you want to explore the most common terraform commands:

make terraform/[tab]
apply     clean     destroy   fmt       init      init/     plan      validate  version

To display all available commands:

make help

For more information about each Make targets available.

Terraform by HashiCorp - Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure.
Changelog - All notable changes.
Code Of Conduct - Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct
Contributing - Learn how to contribute
License - MIT No Attribution
GNU Make - If you are new to make, or are looking for a general introduction.

This project is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.