Automating GitHub Repository Collaboration User Creation with Terraform: Streamlining Access Management

Introduction: -

GitHub is a popular platform for version control and collaborative software development. With Terraform, you can automate the creation and management of GitHub users, allowing you to streamline user provisioning and ensure consistent access control across your organization’s repositories.

In this guide, we will walk you through the process of creating a user in GitHub using Terraform. By leveraging Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code approach, you can define user configurations as code, enabling easy replication, version control, and collaboration within your infrastructure workflow.

Pre-Requestisites: -

1. Terraform should be installed.
2. Github Should be configured in your machine.

step 1:- open an editor like visualstudiocode

step 2:- create one folder and name it as github-user you can also assign your own name and using that same folder create a file called main.tf and create one more file under the same github folder and name the file has variable.tf . open and perform the sample code which has given below:

#main.tf
provider "github" {
  token = "YOUR GITHUB TOKEN"
}
resource "github_repository_collaborator" "mahira" {
  repository = var.repository_names
  username = var.collaborator_usernames
  permission = var.permission
}

Define the variables using variable.tf file

#variable.tf

#Define a variable for repository name
variable "repository_names" {
  description = "GitHub repository name"
  type = string
}
# Define a variable for collaborator username(user ID)
variable "collaborator_usernames" {
  description = "GitHub collaborator username(user ID)"
  type = string
}
# Define a variable for permission level
variable "permission" {
  description = "GitHub collaborator permission level (maintain, read, write)"
  type = string
}

step3:- After creating a file .open a terminal perform terraform init

step 4:- After Initialization we need to perform terraform plan.

step 5:- Once the Plan runs successfully. Run terraform apply.

step 6:- Login to github and open your own repo in that open settings you may see that collaborators manage access one user should added.

• Find the Source code from the below github repo :-

“https://github.com/MahiraTechnology/Mahira-medium.git”

Conclusion:-

Automating user creation in GitHub using Terraform offers an efficient and consistent approach to managing user access to repositories. By following the steps outlined in this guide, you have learned how to leverage Terraform to provision GitHub users programmatically.

With Terraform, user creation becomes part of your infrastructure-as-code workflow, providing benefits such as version control, repeatability, and easy collaboration. By defining user configurations as code, you can ensure consistent access privileges across repositories and easily replicate user setups across different environments.