Introduction

Based on Databricks documentation, the basic VPC requirements for a Databricks AWS workspace includes a NAT Gateway with access to the internet. However, this is usually a concern with more security-conscious enterprises.

Setting Up

1. Copy templates/variables_template.tf into the root folder as variables.tf
2. Update the variables.tf with the required information
3. Follow the terraform setup steps to get set up
   1. Recommended Set up a new AWS profile on your aws cli, so that you can easily isolate your AWS credentials for testing
      1. You can then set your aws_vars.profile variable to the profile name
      2. Importantly, set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

Running Things

1. To initialize the terraform modules required: terraform init
2. To dry-run the build: terraform plan
3. To build: terraform build