quicksight_with_terraform

Enterprise Quicksight Dashboard Deployment

This GitHub repository highlights the prowess of Amazon QuickSight – your gateway to seamless data analysis and visualization within the AWS ecosystem using Terraform

🔑 Key Features

• Infrastructure as Code: Define your AWS infrastructure declaratively using Terraform configurations, enabling easy versioning, management, and environment reproducibility.

• Quicksight: Amazon QuickSight is a robust data analysis and visualization tool designed to streamline data exploration and decision-making.

⚡️ Prerequisites

• To create this QuickSight dashboard using API you must have an enterprise user/users
• dashboard_id
• name
• version_description

⚠️ Cautions

• As an AWS best practice, grant this code the least privilege, providing only the necessary permissions to perform a task. For more information, see Grant Least Privilege in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.
• This code has been tested in the us-east-1 AWS Region only. However, it should work in any other region.
• Running this code may result in charges to your AWS account.

▶️ How to Run This Code

🚀 Quick Start

cd quicksight_with_terraform
terraform init
terraform validate
terraform plan
terraform apply --auto-approve

💥 Quick Destroy

terraform destroy --auto-approve

📌 Notes

- clone this Git repo
- cd to the directory quicksight_with_terraform
- use terraform __init__ command to initialize the Terraform working directory and to download plugins for a provider (aws)
- terraform validate command will validate the code before the actual deployment
- terraform plan command will show the execution code before making the actual deployment
- terraform apply
- Alternate command: terraform apply -auto-approve
- terraform destroy
- Alternate command: terraform destroy -auto-approve
- terraform fmt -recursive # A way to format the terraform code