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Find the Item's detail page on the EWC Community Hub Dashboard by visiting https://www.europeanweather.cloud/community-hub/openstack-compute-instance-terraform-module. Note that, On the Item details page, pay attention to the following:
- Item version:
1.4.0(as of Sep. 10th, 2025
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- Item Repository: URL to the source (hosted on GitHub in this case)
By clicking on the "Repository" button (see Dashboard Overview for an overview of the relevant information displayed on the Item detailed page), you'll get redirected to the source, GitHub in this case. Use the command documented on the home of the repository to clone it to your local work environment. In this example, we run:
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All done! You now equipped to provision and teardown cloud infrastructure with a full-managed state, using nothing but the Community Hub and a couple of commands 🎉.commands~🎉
Best Practices
- Use security groups to restrict traffic (e.g., only SSH or HTTPS).
- Pin provider versions in
main.tffor reproducibility. - Use
terraform planbefore every apply. - Always add informative tags (
tags = {…}) for easier costs traceability and administration. - Consider versioning/backing up the
main.tfyou created, as well as theterraform.tfstatefile that resulted from the execution, using for example git. This helps to avoid loosing track of your the resources' state.
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