Iac Data Engineering Terraform

This walks you through the fundamentals of managing data infrastructure with Terraform on AWS. You get working examples for S3 buckets with versioning and lifecycle policies, EC2 instances configured for data processing with Python and boto3, and IAM roles that grant the right permissions. It covers the core workflow from init and plan through state management and outputs. The examples are practical starting points rather than production-ready templates, so you'll need to tighten security groups and add your own networking setup. Good for data engineers learning IaC or teams standardizing how they provision their data pipeline infrastructure. The remote state backend section is helpful if you're moving beyond solo work.

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last updated: Jul 14, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add aradotso/data-skills --skill iac-data-engineering-terraform --agent claude-code

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IaC for Data Engineering with Terraform

Skill by ara.so — Data Skills collection.

This project demonstrates Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) fundamentals for data engineers using Terraform to provision AWS resources including S3 buckets, EC2 instances, and IAM configurations. It provides reusable patterns for managing data infrastructure declaratively.

What This Project Does

Provisions AWS S3 buckets for data storage
Creates and configures EC2 instances for data processing
Sets up IAM roles and policies with proper permissions
Manages infrastructure state with Terraform
Provides reproducible data engineering environments

Prerequisites

Before using this project, ensure you have:

# Install Terraform
brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

# Install AWS CLI
brew install awscli

# Configure AWS credentials
aws configure
# Enter your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, region, and output format

Set up required environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$YOUR_SECRET_KEY
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1

Project Structure

SKILL.md on GitHub

Details

Repository: github.com/aradotso/data-skills
Categories: DevOps & CI/CD, Cloud & Infrastructure
First seen: Jul 14, 2026

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