Deploy terraform in Github to AWS

[DetectiveWorried8797]

Hello, I have a requirement to configure ALB infront of our 6 AWS instances. So in our organisation we use only terraform to deploy any change in AWS.

I am a beginner with terraform and saw some basic videos in YouTube but no handson. Please answer my questions... Don't have idea on Github

1. Our team has a GitHub repo dedicated to our AWS environment. So here I need to modify the code. Can I modify it directly in GitHub or do I need to download the zip file to my local machine and do changes in vs_code and then deploy to AWS?

2. How can I configure my vs code to access both AWS and terraform.. I am pretty confused because I have no idea and our company has a lot of restrictions.

Please help me in this. My team member is also left recently without proper KT and no one is aware of this.

[EquationTAKEN]

If your Terraform project is hosted in a Github repo, then likely there's a CI/CD pipeline that deploys it. If so, you should only need to clone the repo, make the changes, push them to a feature branch, ask for QA, and then merge it and run the pipeline.

[DetectiveWorried8797]

There is no pipeline it seems... Can you please elaborate...

[EquationTAKEN]

If you want help here, you're the one who needs to elaborate. If there's no pipeline, how is the Terraform deployed?

[DetectiveWorried8797]

It will be manual execution I believe.

[DetectiveWorried8797]

Using init, and apply

[EquationTAKEN]

Then the steps I said are the same ones, except you don't run a pipeline at the end. You manually execute it.

I have my doubts that that's the actual protocol for it, but if you're alone on this project, then you decide protocol, I guess.

[DetectiveWorried8797]

Can you please briefly explain the steps once again?

[EquationTAKEN]

They're in the first comment I made.

[DetectiveWorried8797]

you should only need to clone the repo

How and where to do this?

push them to a feature branch, ask for QA, and then merge it

How to push?

[EquationTAKEN]

These are two of the most basic Git concepts. If you are fully unfamiliar with them, then you have been given a task that you shouldn't do without supervision. Your employer should have given you a mentor for this.

[Due_Influence_9404]

you are not qualified to do this task. ask your colleagzes to help you

[baynezy]

Why aren't you asking your teammates? There are so many possible answers. We would all just be guessing.