Version 1.3.0

Move terraform generated files: (.tfstate, .tfplan) into a separate `statefiles` directory.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ CHANGELOG
 
 This file is used to list changes made in each version of the `en_infra_aws` project.
 
+### Version 1.3.0
+Move terraform generated files: (.tfstate, .tfplan) into a separate `statefiles` directory.
+
 ### Version 1.2.1
 Fixed outputing NATInstance public_ip by separating the creation and assignement phases.
 Fixed remote-exec provisioning retry sequence - now is triggered by the assignement 

DevOpsVPC/Makefile

@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@ info:
 		done
 
 plan:
-	terraform plan -var-file infrastructure.conf -out terraform.tfplan | tee -a logs/plan.log
+	terraform plan -var-file infrastructure.conf -out=statefiles/plan.tfplan -state=statefiles/terraform.tfstate | tee -a logs/plan.log
 
 apply:
-	terraform apply -var-file infrastructure.conf -backup terraform.backup | tee -a logs/apply.log
+	terraform apply -var-file infrastructure.conf -backup=statefiles/beforeapply_$$(date +"%s").backup -state=statefiles/terraform.tfstate | tee -a logs/apply.log
 
 destroy:
-	terraform plan -destroy -var-file infrastructure.conf -out terraform.tfplan | tee -a logs/destroy.log
-	terraform apply terraform.tfplan | tee -a logs/destroy.log
+	terraform plan -destroy -var-file infrastructure.conf -out=statefiles/destroy.tfplan -state=statefiles/terraform.tfstate | tee -a logs/destroy.log
+	terraform apply statefiles/destroy.tfplan | tee -a logs/destroy.log
+	mv -f terraform.tfstate statefiles/destroy.tfstate

DevOpsVPC/infrastructure.conf

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 #-- Version of our infrastructure
 #-- It has no effect, just to help versioning.
-en_infra_aws_version = "1.2.1"
+en_infra_aws_version = "1.3.0"
 
 #-- AWS region
 aws_region = "us-east-1"

DevOpsVPC/statefiles/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Directory to store `.tfstate`, `.tfplan`, `.tfbackup` files for terraform actions.

README.md

@@ -132,10 +132,11 @@ Will read our custom `infrastructure.conf`, process the tf files then compare th
 
 ### make apply
 Will read our custom `infrastructure.conf`, will process the tf filse and send the commands to `AWS API` to provision the infrastructure.
+Will save a copy of the previous statefile in the `statefiles/beforeapply_$$(date +"%s").backup` location.
 
 ### make destroy
-Will read our custom `infrastructure.conf`, do a `terraform plan` then `terraform destroy`.<br />
-`**WARNING!**` This command destroys the entire `terraform controlled` infrastructure without any notice! Don't use it in production.
+Will read our custom `infrastructure.conf`, do a `terraform plan -destroy`, which creates a planfile in `statefiles/destroy.tfplan` then will `apply that destroy plan`.<br />
+`**WARNING!**` This command destroys the entire `terraform controlled` infrastructure without any notice! Use it with care in production.
 
 ### make info
 Will parse the list of the `terraform state` and show a detailed human readable output so that we could inspect our infrastructure.