Automating Static Website Deployment to AWS S3 with Terraform and GitHub Actions

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Overview
This guide demonstrates how to automate the deployment of a static website to Amazon S3 using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). By the end, you'll have a streamlined process that updates your website upon each code push.

Setting Up AWS Credentials in Terraform Cloud
To enable Terraform Cloud to provision resources in your AWS account, you need to securely store your AWS access keys within the platform.
So we 1st create a organization first
go to
then create a new organization

Crete a new workspace

Now come to variable and create 2 variable for AWS ACCESS KEY and SECRET ACCESS KEY

now Navigate to Terraform Cloud > Organization Settings > API Tokens > create an API token > give name generate token > save to notepad

Now come to Github
you can fork this repo code-pipeline-game

Now come to git-repo -> settings -> secrets & variables -> action
here you can save the API token you have generated from terraform cloud

This token we will mention here in Github action workflow YAML file

`name: Deploy website to AWS S3
on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
Terraform:
name: 'Terraform'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v4      

- name: Setup Terraform
  uses: hashicorp/setup-terraform@v1
  with:
    cli_config_credentials_token: ${{ secrets.tfc_team_token }}

- name: Terraform Init
  run: terraform init

- name: Terraform Validate
  run: terraform validate 

- name: Terraform Plan
  run: terraform plan

- name: Terraform Apply
  run: terraform apply -auto-approve

- name: Terraform destroy
  run: terraform destroy -auto-approve`

Now You can find all the other terraform files in github repo
so we can run the the Github action file and check all the stage