Terraform File Naming Best Practice?

Terraform
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I would like to ask what is the best way to organise related terraform resources.

For example.

If you have a use case in which you want to do following things.
Idea is to generate a key and generate a signed url for key file to securely share the key to intended audience only.

  • Create a google cloud bucket
  • Create a google service account
  • Create a google service account key
  • Upload the service account key in bucket
  • create a signed url for the key file that was uploaded
  • upload the signed url file in bucket.

Now My question is what is the best way to organise this use case ?
is it good to put all in one file ? something like generate_signed_url.tf
or should be scattered across multiple files like ?

  • bucket.tf
  • serviceaccount.tf
  • iam.tf
  • signedurl.tf
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Hi @Manishmbm2010

I don’t have experience with Google Cloud and Terraform best practices, but I have built a big deployment of many clouds in AWS using Terraform and after many iterations I have some best practices:

  • Use modules (your own modules)
  • Use a single file for each kind of resource (as you are proposing)
  • Have vars files for each kind of resource
  • Follow a naming standard for files, vars and values, add tags
  • Think big, a single cloud can become many and include hundreds of elements

There are many best practices around the Internet that you can follow, if you want to take a look at my best practices see the following post and download the code from github.