Terraform Data Engineering Iac

This is a solid starter template for provisioning AWS data infrastructure with Terraform. It covers the essentials: S3 buckets with versioning and lifecycle policies for your data lake, EC2 instances for processing workloads, and IAM roles to tie it together. The examples are practical, showing you how to set up remote state, manage multiple environments, and give your EC2 instances the right permissions to access S3. It's not a production-ready framework, but it's a good foundation if you're learning IaC for data engineering or need a quick reference for the Terraform workflow. The state management commands and multi-environment patterns are especially useful if you're moving beyond toy projects.

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

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Terraform Data Engineering IaC

Skill by ara.so — Data Skills collection.

This project demonstrates Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) fundamentals for data engineering using Terraform. It provisions AWS resources commonly used in data pipelines including S3 buckets for data storage and EC2 instances for data processing workloads.

What It Does

Provisions AWS S3 buckets for data lake storage
Creates EC2 instances for data processing and pipeline execution
Manages IAM policies for secure resource access
Uses Terraform state to track and manage infrastructure changes
Provides reproducible infrastructure for data engineering environments

Prerequisites

Before using this project, ensure you have:

AWS Account with appropriate permissions
Terraform CLI installed
AWS CLI installed and configured
IAM user with S3, EC2, and IAM permissions

Installation

1. Install Terraform

# macOS
brew install terraform

# Linux
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.5.0/terraform_1.5.0_linux_amd64.zip
unzip terraform_1.5.0_linux_amd64.zip
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/

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