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🚀 Terraform Infrastructure & CI/CD Deployment

📌 Project Overview

This project involved setting up a cloud infrastructure using Terraform, implementing CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security best practices, and configuring monitoring solutions for AWS resources.

✅ Project Completion Summary

📅 Day 1: Terraform Infrastructure & Core Setup

1️⃣ Defined Infrastructure Architecture & Justification

• Team: Cloud Architects
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ Architecture Diagram (Draw.io, Lucidchart) finalized
  • ✅ Justification for Terraform over CloudFormation documented

2️⃣ Setup Terraform Backend & Remote State

• Team: DevOps Team
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ backend.tf configured for S3 & DynamoDB state locking
  • ✅ terraform init tested and validated successfully

3️⃣ Created Terraform Modules

• Team: Cloud Engineers
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ modules/vpc – VPC, subnets, security groups successfully implemented
  • ✅ modules/ec2 – ASG, ALB setup completed
  • ✅ modules/rds – Database provisioning finalized

📅 Day 2: CI/CD, Security, and Full Deployment

4️⃣ Implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions/GitLab CI

• Team: DevOps Team
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ terraform plan runs automatically on pull requests
  • ✅ terraform validate and terraform fmt successfully integrated into CI pipeline

5️⃣ Security & Compliance Enforcement

• Team: Security Engineers
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ IAM Role best practices implemented
  • ✅ Terraform Sentinel/Checkov scan completed with compliance checks

6️⃣ Deployed Infrastructure & Verified Remote State Updates

• Team: Cloud Engineers
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ terraform apply executed successfully
  • ✅ AWS resources verified (ASG, ALB, RDS, Networking)

📅 Day 3: Testing, Monitoring & Documentation

7️⃣ Infrastructure Testing (Unit & Integration)

• Team: QA Engineers
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ Terratest results confirming infrastructure integrity
  • ✅ Security group and IAM policy validation passed

8️⃣ Implemented Monitoring (CloudWatch, Terraform Cloud)

• Team: SRE Team
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ CloudWatch alerts for key resources configured
  • ✅ Terraform Cloud integrated for remote execution

9️⃣ Final Documentation & Demo

• Team: Cloud Architects
• Completed Deliverables:
  • ✅ Updated README.md with setup, workflows, and scaling procedures
  • ✅ Live Terraform workflow demo successfully presented to stakeholders

🏁 Project Completion & Review

The project has been successfully completed, with all deliverables finalized and validated. CI/CD automation, security best practices, and monitoring integrations are fully functional. Stakeholders have reviewed and approved the deployment.

📌 Thank you to everyone involved! 🚀