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This video shows how to configure and use GitLab as CI/CD tool for AWS Infrastructure as Code with Terraform. It shows how to set up the GitLab managed Terraform state file and use it after that.
This video has clean flow walk through, scratch to end configuration walk though and code walk through as well.
Its complete GitLab tutorial.
This video helps , DevOps Engineer , Developer , Architects etc.
Source code can be found here : gitlab.com/RekhuGopal/aws-iac...
#gitlab #tutorials #aws #infrastructureascode #terraform

[@bit-studios1]

This is definitely the best tutorial on setting up terraform with GitLab!!! Outstanding video. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙌🏿

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[@bediaguvenckesgin7794]

This is a great video that I can use to set up my CICD job for my terraform code. Thank you so much for all your efforts.

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[@sivaprasanth5961]

This video is really amazing and next level.

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[@abhishekpatel7291]

Thank you!
I haven't find anywhere in documentation that tfstate file first time need to manually created so wasted so many hours.
Thanks to you for sharing the knowledge.

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[@shivaswaroopnk]

Great tutorial. As a gitlab beginner, this helped a lot. Thank you Sir!

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[@adhiyamank7678]

It was a great effort with a clear explanation, keep it up!

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[@trickytibo]

very precise explanations. Many thanks. Great work.

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[@user-vt2vn5fn7n]

Really nice video, It helped me a lot to understand and implement. Thank you..

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[@shahzadmalik7884]

Excellent video. I appreciate your work. Just a note, I had to remove "Protected" option from pipeline variables to make it work in gitlab 16. Thanks

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[@pranavtasticofficial]

everthing worked perfectly for me.. just a quick question. how to manage the overrides of variables that we generally do via tfvars?

[@cloudquicklabs]

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There are multiple ways to override variables value. You can customise to process to change the varaible value doing executions. But under the hood you should mandatory parameters values.

[@craigtaylor3899]

Thank you this was VERY helpful

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[@bjblk1]

Thanks for such an awesome video.

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[@ajop2235]

Thanks for the tutorial. I manage to understand it even with my limited knowledege. I will now try to see if I can replicate this but instead of a vpc I will start an EC2 instance

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[@RSCAMANO]

you done a greate work creating this tutorial.

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[@A.A.]

Thanks, it really helped.

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[@JorgeEugenioR]

excellent tutorial!!! thanks!!

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[@ksr441]

Excellent video

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[@devd6800]

it would be really great if you can breakdown different parts of this video so people can quickly get on to the topic they want

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[@Think_big260]

Where we have declared the CI variables which have been used in gitlab-ci yml files?

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Variable are declare in gitlab setting it self, I would suggest you to please watch the video patiencefully.

[@davidvacca4295]

Do you have something similar how to set up gitlab for deploy AMI with packer?

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[@knockobscure]

Hello to you all.
I have a problem and I don’t know how to solve it.
I have my project and within my project I created several folders for different Stacks, example:
VPC
EC2 site
ECS
As we know terraform must be started and run in the directory. In the tutorial was passed the variable to get the project and the folder was inserted to which he used in the tutorial:
variables:
TF_DIR: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/terraform
Before running terraform init it runs cd ${TF_DIR} to go to the correct directory.
How do I do this in my case? would need to pass in my variable something that takes my directory, so when I run something the cd command goes to the current directory and with that can do the terraform init and everything else.
How can I solve this problem?

[@cloudquicklabs]

Thank you for watching my videos.
When you have multiple folders which means you have Terraform modules, as you are aware that Terraform execution limited to directory, you need to create Terraform module here say one more terraform/main.tf, where main.tf would contains the module invokes i.e running tf files in those three folders (i.e VPC, ECS, ECS site etc)

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[@eswarmoorthiduraisamy7986]

Nice helpful video? do we need to create this state file steps for every new repo we add ???

[@cloudquicklabs]

Thank you for watching my videos.
Indeed you need to create per backend definition of your terraform.

[@2mahender]

nice video, you have created a manual step for tfstate file, cant gitlab automatically create it?

[@cloudquicklabs]

Thank you for watching my videos.
Currently suggested approach is shown in video. May be in future GitLab starts to support it.

[@MohammadMasukImtiazMasuk]

Don't you need a runner to configure gitlab ci/cd?

[@cloudquicklabs]

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I have used default runners for this demo.

[@talleuxraphael4679]

Great video! Unfortunately, group token access has become a paying service. Do you know another way to link the AWS account and Gitlab?

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[@vijaymestry4236]

best

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[@vijayrathinam5651]

Hi Sir please respond to this issue
Error refreshing state: 2 problems:
- Unsupported state file format: The state file could not be parsed as JSON: syntax error at byte offset 1.
- Unsupported state file format: The state file does not have a "version" attribute, which is required to identify the format version.

[@cloudquicklabs]

Thank you for watching my videos.
Did you first created state file locally and uploaded that to Gitlab state option. And hope that you watched the video correctly.

[@vijayrathinam5651]

@@cloudquicklabs Thanks for reply.
Yes i have did the steps same as the video, created state file locally and uploaded by running terraform plan command

[@sasikumarrunforlife]

Awesome video

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[@nksajeer]

Initializing the backend...
Successfully configured the backend "http"! Terraform will automatically
use this backend unless the backend configuration changes.
Error refreshing state: HTTP remote state endpoint requires auth
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:01
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

[@cloudquicklabs]

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Here errors looks to be with permissions. Could you please check the steps again.

[@mdkelley02]

If you set any of the pipeline variables to be protected, check to make sure that you are not running this pipeline against an unprotected branch. Only master is protected by default.

[@Quilz06]

video starts from 9:00

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[@user-ox6rk1wd4w]

Nive video . Please send GitLab url for code.

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Please find GitLab repo link gitlab.com/RekhuGopal/aws-iac/-/tree/main

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[@trollingday7124]

Very nice video, could someone try to share the steps to do same for Azure cloud??? Thx in advance

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[@GaganGautam-ik9ko]

getting this error, terraform plan
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│ Error: Error acquiring the state lock
│
│ Error message: Failed to make lock HTTP request: net/http: invalid method "POST-backend-config=unlock_method=DELETE"
│
│ Terraform acquires a state lock to protect the state from being written
│ by multiple users at the same time. Please resolve the issue above and try
│ again. For most commands, you can disable locking with the "-lock=false"
│ flag, but this is not recommended.

[@cloudquicklabs]

Thank you for watching my videos.
Here it looks like your state file already has the lock. First do remove it. Then try terraform plan should be working.

[@GaganGautam-ik9ko]

@@cloudquicklabs how to do it and now it is showing some error of auth enable