iac-terraform-data-engineering — Claude Code skill: Terraform for data

What iac-terraform-data-engineering does

The skill ships Terraform templates for the usual data engineering jobs on AWS: storage in S3, compute on EC2, permissions through IAM. Inside you get example configs for main.tf, variables.tf, outputs.tf and the command set for init, validate, fmt, plan, apply and destroy. There is a section on state management too, covering a remote S3 backend with DynamoDB locking.

To use it you need an AWS account with admin rights, the Terraform CLI, the AWS CLI, and credentials set up through aws configure. The examples suggest giving an IAM user full access to S3, EC2 and IAM for learning, which is not what you want in production — least-privilege policies belong there. Worth checking what permissions you actually hand the agent before it applies anything.

Verification commands are included: aws s3 ls, aws ec2 describe-instances, terraform show. There is also a data lake pattern with several buckets and versioning for data lineage.