How My Terraform GitHub Actions Pipeline Works

This documents how our Terraform CI/CD pipeline is set up in GitHub Actions: specifically the auth model, the state backend, the two-file workflow structure, and how I close the loop on post-merge apply results showing up on the PR that triggered them. The Two-File Workflow Structure The pipeline is split into two files: a thin caller and a reusable template. terraform.yml — the caller. It defines the triggers and hands off to the template: ...

May 29, 2026 · 7 min · Zac Lohrenz