Git

Progress checklist

• Git installed
• user.name and user.email configured globally
• Terraform repo cloned locally

Git is used to clone the Terraform infrastructure repo used by this walkthrough. Install it, set your identity, and clone the infra repo before running any Terraform from the repo.

1. Install Git. Required

   macOS

   macOS ships with a system Git, but Homebrew’s version is kept up to date:

   brew install git

   Linux

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y git

   Verify:

   git --version

2. Configure your identity.

   Git requires a name and email for commits. This matters if you push any changes later (for example to your own fork of the Terraform repo).

   git config --global user.name "Your Name"
   git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

   Confirm the settings:

   git config --global --list

3. Clone the Terraform infrastructure repo. Required

   The Terraform code for this walkthrough lives in a separate repository. Clone it into your workspace directory.

   Note

   Repository: terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance. This walkthrough uses examples/waf-loki and shared modules under modules/ (see that repository’s own documentation for the full tree).

   cd ~/workspace
   git clone https://github.com/jajera/terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance.git
   cd terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance

   Confirm the clone worked:

   ls

   You should see README.md, modules/, examples/waf-loki/, and other Terraform files as described in that repository.

4. Optional: use SSH instead of HTTPS.

   If you have an SSH key configured with GitHub, use SSH to avoid entering your credentials on every git pull:

   git clone git@github.com:jajera/terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance.git

   To set up an SSH key: GitHub docs - generating a new SSH key.

5. Verify the remote.

   git remote -v

   Expected output:

   origin  https://github.com/jajera/terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance.git (fetch)
   origin  https://github.com/jajera/terraform-aws-lambda-managed-instance.git (push)

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