IaC Using Terraform and GitHub Integration — Lesson 3: GitHub Collaboration, Reviews, and Automation

Learning Objectives

• Use repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, reviews, tags, and release practices
• Integrate Terraform validation, formatting, planning, and policy checks into GitHub workflows
• Design approvals, protected branches, secrets, artifacts, and deployment safeguards

Detailed Topics

• Use repositories: Use repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, reviews, tags, and release practices
• Integrate Terraform validation: Integrate Terraform validation, formatting, planning, and policy checks into GitHub workflows
• Design approvals: Design approvals, protected branches, secrets, artifacts, and deployment safeguards

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Create a pull-request workflow that validates and reviews a Terraform change.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply GitHub Collaboration, Reviews, and Automation in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.