☁️ Cloud Computing Starter Kit

This is a starter kit for beginners who want to get into cloud. You’ll use Terraform to create AWS resources and GitHub Actions to automate it — no extra tools needed.

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🚀 What You’ll Learn

• How to create real AWS infrastructure with Terraform
• How to run Terraform from GitHub automatically using Actions
• How to connect your GitHub repo to your AWS account
• What DevOps + cloud looks like in real life

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🔧 What You Need

• GitHub account
• AWS account (Free Tier is fine)
• That’s it. No CLI tools unless you want to test it locally

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🗂️ What’s Inside

File	What it does
main.tf	Terraform code that makes an S3 bucket
.github/workflows/terraform.yml	Automation — runs terraform plan and apply
README.md	This guide

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🧪 How to Use It

1. Fork this repo

Top right corner → click Fork

2. Add AWS credentials

In your repo:
Go to Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions
Add these two secrets:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

(You can make them in the AWS console by creating a new IAM user with AmazonS3FullAccess)

3. Push any change to main

That’s it. Terraform will run and create your S3 bucket automatically.

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✅ How to Check If It Worked

• Go to your AWS Console → S3
• You should see a bucket like:
  my-cloud-starterkit-bucket-<random>

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🧠 What You Can Try Next

• Add a second AWS resource (like EC2 or Lambda)
• Customize the bucket name using variables.tf
• Set up backend state in S3
• Try the same project with Azure or GCP

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This repo is for anyone who’s starting from scratch and wants to stop watching tutorials and actually build something. You don’t need to know everything — just start here and build on it.

— Made for beginners in tech. Built by someone who gets it.