Managing GitHub with Terraform (and GitHub) - now live!

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Introduction

A while back I wrote a post about about to manage GitHub with Terraform and GitHub, you can read it here.

Well, after a bit of tidying up, I think I’m finally ready to release the source code to the general public.

It’s alive

So, here you go: https://github.com/sudoblark/sudoblark.terraform.github.

You can see the nitty gritty of how I manage GitHub for Sudoblark, including how I:

• Create new repositories using a simple to read and understand data structure.

• Split domains of interest to allow logically grouping of repositories.

• Auto-provision repos with licenses.

• Auto-provision repos with codeowners files.

• Bootstrap repos with a base-level README.md that developers (i.e. me) are expected to populate on their first pull request.

• Bootstrap a commit-to-pr.yaml GitHub workflow for Terraform repositories - whilst maintaining flexibility to do so for other repo types.

• Centrally manage a single .gitignore file for all repositories.

• Centrally manage pre-commit-config.yaml for multiple repo types.

• Centrally manage pull_request_template.md for multiple repo types.

That’s it, that’s all. A fairly small post today, but I’m working on a fun release in the coming months of my own CLI application so stay tuned.