Authenticating Terraform with a GitHub App
In my current role, I configured Terraform to manage our GitHub organisation. As with all providers, we need need to provide credentials for authentication. I didn’t want to use an access token, as they are tied to an individual user and will cause breakage should the user depart the organisation. Thankfully, GitHub supports using an application for authentication. Create the GitHub Application The first step in the process is to create a new GitHub application.