Publish Terraform Module

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So, Before moving to publishing terraform modules , if you guys dont have any idea about what is terraform modules , then Just go through my this blog first.

Ok, Lets get started without wasting any time. So we saw in the previous blog that how we can use the module locally or create them. But what if i want to publish my own module. And use them anywhere just by providing the source same as the ‘public terraform registry provides the functionality’ ?

We can achieve thatas well by creating our own “Private Modul Registry”. And sharing our module there.

So before moving to the steps that how we are gonna achieve that , Let’s see the

Prerequisites:

A Terraform Cloud account.
A GitHub account
An AWS account with IAM Access Keys
OAuth Access to GitHub configured. If you belong to an organization where you don’t have permission to configure this access, you can create a new organization for this

Steps to follow:

Create the repository ‘terraform-aws-ec2′ , you can give you own what ever you want. Or you can directly clone my repo. Review the module configuration for the ‘ec2’ module. The repository looks similar to the directory structure below.

The variables.tf file will define your Terraform Cloud variables as inputs for the ‘aws_instance’ resource that Terraform will create.

Note: In order to publish modules to the module registry, module names must have the format terraform-<PROVIDER>-<NAME>, where <NAME> can contain extra hyphens.

If you name your repo instead of this format just rename it.

2. Tag a Release:

Terraform Cloud modules should be semantically versioned, and pull their versioning information from repository release tags. To publish a module initially, at least one release tag must be present. Tags that don’t look like version numbers are ignored. Version tags can optionally be prefixed with a v.

To tag a release, under your repository’s Code tab, click on the tag icon, which says “0 releases.” As i alraedy created a release for my repo that’s why it is showing “tag 1” in following dig.

After clicking on tag you will get the following page. Just Select Choose a tag , and put you release version you want to provide e.g “v1.0.0” . Then click on “publish Release”

Now that you have created and versioned your module, you need to add a VCS connection to your Terraform Cloud organization.

NOTE: The Private Module Registry requires OAuth verification to GitHub. If you haven’t already, follow the OAuth instructions before proceeding.

3. Publish Module: To publish your module into your “private module registry”. Fist Login to your terraform cloud account. Select “Registry” –> “Modules” –> “Publish” from the upper right corner.