Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and GitHub Actions: A Kubernetes Case Study
Update (January 2026): The workflow patterns and concepts in this tutorial remain valid. If you’re following along, consider updating actions/checkout@main to a pinned version like actions/checkout@v4, and verify the latest Terraform Kubernetes provider version for your cluster’s API compatibility. As I’ve been working with Terraform more and more these days, I felt that it would be a good idea to move away from some of my other hacked together solutions in favor of Terraform. My next logical step was to focus on kubernetes management with terraform and github actions. This idea builds upon my previous Using Github to Manage Kubernetes article. As I started down this path, I realized that I needed a way to manage my state file. This is why I thought it was important to tackle the configuration I posted in Managing Your Terraform State File. ...