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# Consolidate infra config from tfvars files into config module

* Status: accepted
* Deciders: @lorenyu @rocketnova @kyeah @acouch
* Date: 2023-09-07

Technical Story: [Replace configure scripts with project/app config variables #312](https://github.com/navapbc/template-infra/issues/312)

## Context

Currently, application infrastructure configuration is split across config modules (see [app-config](https://github.com/HHS/simpler-grants-gov/blob/main/infra/frontend/app-config/README.md)) as well as .tfvars files in each of the application's infra layers - infra/app/build-repository, infra/app/database, and infra/app/service. As @kyeah pointed out, it’s easy to make mistakes when configuration is spread across multiple files, and expressed a desire to manage manage tfvars across environments all in a single file the way that some applications do for application configuration. And as @acouch [pointed out](https://github.com/navapbc/template-infra/pull/282#discussion_r1219930653), there is a lot of duplicate code with the configure scripts (setup-current-account.sh, configure-app-build-repository.sh, configure-app-database.sh, configure-app-service.sh) that configure the backend config and variable files for each infrastructure layer, which increases the burden of maintaining the configuration scripts.

## Overview

This ADR proposes the following:

* Move all environment configuration into [app-config](https://github.com/HHS/simpler-grants-gov/blob/main/infra/frontend/app-config/README.md) modules
* Remove the need for .tfvars files
* Remove the configuration scripts that are currently used for configuring each infrastructure layer

Benefits:

* All configuration can now be managed in the [app-config](https://github.com/HHS/simpler-grants-gov/blob/main/infra/frontend/app-config/README.md) module.
* Custom configuration scripts now longer need to be maintained
* Eliminates the need to specify -var-file option when running terraform apply, which reduces the need for terraform wrapper scripts

## Links

* Builds on [ADR-0004](/product/decisions/infra/0004-separate-terraform-backend-configs-into-separate-config-files.md)