Cross-Environment Deployment

Prerequisites

AWS account with appropriate permissions
Terraform >= 1.0
Terraform workspaces configured for each environment

Step 1: Create Environment Configuration

Define environment-specific variables:

# environments/dev.tfvars
environment = "dev"
region_code = "use1"

# environments/stg.tfvars
environment = "stg"
region_code = "use1"

# environments/prod.tfvars
environment = "prod"
region_code = "use1"

Step 2: Configure the Naming Module

variable "environment" {
  type        = string
  description = "Environment name"
}

variable "region_code" {
  type        = string
  description = "Region code"
}

module "naming" {
  source  = "registry.patterneddesigns.ca/standardnat/naming-convention/aws"
  version = "2.0.0"

  environment = var.environment
  project     = "myapp"
  region_code = var.region_code
}

Step 3: Define Resources

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "data" {
  bucket = "${module.naming.prefix}-data"
  tags   = module.naming.tags
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "main" {
  name = "${module.naming.prefix}-main"
  tags = module.naming.tags
}

Step 4: Deploy to Each Environment

# Deploy to development
terraform workspace select dev
terraform apply -var-file=environments/dev.tfvars

# Deploy to staging
terraform workspace select stg
terraform apply -var-file=environments/stg.tfvars

# Deploy to production
terraform workspace select prod
terraform apply -var-file=environments/prod.tfvars

Expected Results

Each environment will have consistently named resources:

Environment	S3 Bucket	SQS Queue
dev	`dev-myapp-use1-data`	`dev-myapp-use1-main`
stg	`stg-myapp-use1-data`	`stg-myapp-use1-main`
prod	`prod-myapp-use1-data`	`prod-myapp-use1-main`