I hit an problem the recently with Terraform, when I was trying to hook up a Lambda Trigger to a Kinesis stream. Both the lambda itself, and the stream creation succeeded within Terraform, but the trigger would just stay stuck on “creating…” for at least 5 minutes, before I got bored of waiting and killed the process. Several attempts at doing this had the same issue. The code looked something along the lines of this:...
Hosting a static website with S3 is really easy, especially from terraform: First off, we want a public readable S3 bucket policy, but we want to apply this only to one specific bucket. To achive that we can use Terraform’s template_file data block to merge in a value: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "PublicReadGetObject", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": "*", "Action": [ "s3:GetObject" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::${bucket_name}/*" ] } ] } As you can see the interpolation syntax is pretty much the same as how you use variables in terraform itself....