cdktf bootstrap command

[jsteinich]

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Description

Inspired by a slack thread, the idea is to create the necessary resources to store Terraform state files / locks in remote backends. I.e. for S3Backend, an S3 bucket and DynamoDB table and associated permissions would be setup.

Perhaps that configuration could be remembered and then newly initialized projects inherit the backend configuration settings.

References

https://cdk-dev.slack.com/archives/C017XMM5L7N/p1627938410005400

[danieldreier]

I'm categorizing this as x-large because doing a seamless bootstrap that provisions state storage and then moves state into it is a substantial project. It's not an immediate priority for the team in the next few months but we'd be open to designing this together if you or another external contributor wants to build this kind of workflow.