terraform backend resources managed by terraform.
Bootstrap your project whose resources will be managed by terraform:
module "backend" {
source = "github.com/samstav/terraform-aws-backend"
backend_bucket = "terraform-state-bucket"
}The following commands will get you up and running:
terraform get -update
# Avoid backend configuration on our first call to init since we havent created our resources yet
terraform init -backend=false
# Target only the resources needed for our aws backend for terraform state/locking
terraform plan -out=backend.plan -target=module.backend
terraform apply backend.plan
# *now* we can write the terraform backend configuration into our project
echo 'terraform { backend "s3" {} }' > conf.tf
# re-initialize and you're good to go
terraform init -reconfigure -backend-config=conf.tfvars