README.md

Terraform MySQL on RDS example (staging environment)

This folder contains a MySQL on RDS example of a Terraform file Terraform.

This Terraform file deploys a MySQL database using RDS on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

You must have Terraform installed on your computer.
You must have an AWS (Amazon Web Services) account.
It uses the Terraform AWS Provider that interacts with the many resources supported by AWS through its APIs.
This code was written for Terraform 0.10.x.

Configure your AWS access keys.
Initialize working directory.

The first command that should be run after writing a new Terraform configuration is the terraform init command in order to initialize a working directory containing Terraform configuration files. It is safe to run this command multiple times.
```
terraform init
```
Configure Terraform backend.

Modify the S3 bucket name, which is defined in the bucket attribute in backend.tf file.
```
bucket = "<YOUR_BUCKET_NAME>"
```
Configure database password.

The database password is managed by the db_password input variable.

Terraform will parse any environment variables that are prefixed with TF_VAR. You must create an environment variable TF_VAR_db_password:
```
TF_VAR_db_password=<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>
```
Validate the changes.

Run command:
```
terraform plan
```
Deploy the changes.

Run command:
```
terraform apply
```
Test the deploy.

You should see a new RDS MySQL database on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
Clean up the resources created.

When you have finished, run command:
```
terraform destroy
```