Development Guide: Infrastructure

Component: infraTool: Terraform

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Terraform 1.0+
• Coder CLI (optional, for template management)
• Docker (for local validation)

Initialization

Initialize the Terraform working directory and download providers:

cd infra/terraform/coder-template
terraform init

Validation

Validate the configuration syntax:

terraform validate

Deployment (via Coder)

Typically, you do not run terraform apply locally for production. Instead, you push the template to Coder:

coder templates push my-template -d infra/terraform/coder-template

Local Testing

You can use terraform plan to verify resource changes, but full end-to-end testing requires the Coder environment.