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Local Ops Cloud

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LOC — Local Ops Cloud

LOC is a developer-focused CLI for learning Terraform the fun way — completely locally, with no cloud bills.

It allows you to spin up, manage, and destroy infrastructure environments like dev and prod using Terraform and Docker containers. This project is a hobby playground, not a production tool, designed to let you experiment freely while learning Terraform concepts and Golang CLI development.

With LOC, you can:

• Pull and run container images dynamically from configuration.

• Start, stop, and manage environments with simple commands:

  • loc up <env> — Start a specified environment
  • loc down <env> — Tear down an environment
  • loc shell — Access a running container shell

• Learn Terraform concepts such as:

  • Modules
  • Variables and TFVARS
  • for_each loops
  • count for multiple resources
  • Remote state and backend configs
  • Environment-specific provisioning

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Project Structure

├── cli               # Golang CLI code (Cobra commands)
├── terraform
│   ├── environments  # Environment-specific tfvars and backend configs
│   └── infra         # Terraform modules and main configurations
│       ├── 01_global
│       └── 02_core

• cli/ — Contains the LOC CLI written in Golang.
• terraform/environments/ — Separate dev and prod directories, each with TFVARS and backend configs.
• terraform/infra/ — Terraform modules and main configurations, demonstrating for_each, count, and modular structure.

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Prerequisites

• Docker installed on your machine.
• Terraform CLI installed.
• Golang only if you want to build the CLI from source.

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Contributing & Build Your Own CLI

LOC is a weekend hobby project to learn Terraform locally in a fun and safe way — no cloud bills required.

You’re welcome to fork this project and build your own version of the CLI. Experiment with infrastructure, containers, and environments while learning Terraform and Go. Happy to see interesting contributions, ideas, and improvements!

Fork LOC on GitHub: https://github.com/deexithparand/loc/fork

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Terraform Folder Structure Script

Manually creating the Terraform folder structure for every project can be tedious. I’ve written a shell script to automate it. You can pull and run it directly:

curl -L https://gist.githubusercontent.com/deexithparand/cfc0c7020e8ffc4d0d843bf573e0d60c/raw/terraform-setup.sh -o terraform-setup.sh 
chmod +x terraform-setup.sh
./terraform-setup.sh
rm terraform-setup.sh

This script will automatically set up:

This script sets up the full project skeleton, so you can start learning Terraform immediately without worrying about folder structures.

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