Github: Automate Code Repos

Nov 12, 2021

Creating and configuring new source code repos can be a tedious process and prone to misconfiguraion. Here are some examples of easy to forget configurations:

access
branches and protection rules
webhooks
deploy keys
labels
default files
and more

One approach to enforce standartization is to handle repo creation and configuration with infrastracture as code. Terraform conveniently has the github provider that empowers us to perform this task fairly easily. Some important constructs to consider during that implementation are:

Custom module to abstract overall repo config
Iterate over a json input file with for_each to provide dynamic inputs
The github_repository resource allows us to configure features such as visibility, issues, templates, topics ,etc
The github_issue_label with for_each allows us to create not only a set of labels but also a workflow uniformly across all projects that dictates the contribution model

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