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Surya Shankar
Surya Shankar

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Terraform code to Create Github Repository

Create a new manifest called github.tf in the directory, and paste that into there:

Copy the use provider code to create your first block

terraform {
required_providers {
github = {
source = "integrations/github"
version = "4.30.0"
}
}
}

provider "github" {
# Configuration options
}

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Under authenticate in https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest/docs,
you see that a token is required. Generate a token in your github accoundt under the developer settings within settings . When creating the token, select the operations for repo and
delete_repo.

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- Navigate to github_repository in the documentation and copy the example usage into your VS Code, You can remove the template and description part since they are optional, change the
visibility to public/private and name it as terraform repo

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Run Following Commands
$ terraform init
- Download Providers & Modules

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$ terraform validate
- Validate .tf profile
$ terraform plan
- DRY RUN

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$ terraform apply
- Create a resources &&& store a resonse IN STATE file(json)

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Now go to your github and you can see your repo

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