Configuration

Configuration Files

Config files can be found under each config folders

• Global config file /config/common.tfvars contains global context TF variables that we inject to TF commands which are used by all sub-directories such as leverage terraform plan or leverage terraform apply and which cannot be stored in backend.tfvars due to TF.
• Account config files
  • backend.tfvars contains TF variables that are mainly used to configure TF backend but since profile and region are defined there, we also use them to inject those values into other TF commands.
  • account.tfvars contains TF variables that are specific to an AWS account.
• Global common-variables.tf file /config/common-variables.tfvars contains global context TF variables that we symlink to all terraform layers code e.g. shared/us-east-1/tools-vpn-server/common-variables.tf.
• build.env file
  • By utilizing the build.env capability, you can easily change some default behaviors of the CLI. Read more in its dedicated "Override defaults via build.env file" section.

Setting credentials for Terraform via AWS profiles

• File backend.tfvars will inject the profile name that TF will use to make changes on AWS.
• Such profile is usually one that relies on another profile to assume a role to get access to each corresponding account.
• Please read the credentials section to understand the alternatives supported by Leverage to authenticate with AWS.
• Read the following page leverage doc to understand how to set up a profile to assume a role