Terraform

Pre-Requisites

Install Terraform on your machine If you are on Windows, use Chocolatey to install Terraform via the following CLI command.
```
choco install terraform
```
Once Terraform is installed, make sure that you machine is configured to authenticate into AWS. Please refer to this article. With that done, you are good to go!

Bootstrapping

If you are deploying the FSH .NET Starter Kit for the first time, navigate to ./terraform/boostrap and run the following commands,

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply --auto-approve

This will provision the required backend resources on AWS that terraform would need in the next steps. Basics this will create an Amazon S3 Bucket, and DynamoDB Table.

Deploy

Navigate to ./environments/dev/ and run the following.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply --auto-approve

This will deploy the following,

ECS Clusters and Tasks. (.NET Web API & Blazor)
RDS PostgreSQL Database Instance.
Required Networking Components like VPC, ALB etc.

Destroy

Once you are done with your testing, ensure that you delete the resources to keep your bill under control.

terraform destroy --auto-approve