Infrastructure

Name: Infrastructure
Author: girijashankarj

girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

1 installs
27 repo stars
Updated April 25, 2026
girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Workflow to provision or modify cloud infrastructure with IaC, covering requirements, architecture, Terraform/CDK, security, and staged deploy.

About

Guides provisioning cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code from requirements through deployment. A developer uses it when creating or modifying cloud infrastructure.

Writes Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation with reusable modules
Enforces encryption, least-privilege IAM, and staged deploys

Infrastructure by the numbers

1 all-time installs (skills.sh)
Ranked #933 of 1,039 Cloud & Infrastructure skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
Data as of Jul 22, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)

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What it does

Workflow to provision or modify cloud infrastructure with IaC, covering requirements, architecture, Terraform/CDK, security, and staged deploy.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Skill: Set Up Cloud Infrastructure

Trigger

When the user needs to create or modify cloud resources.

Steps

Step 1: Define Requirements

[ ] What resources are needed?
[ ] Which environment? (dev, staging, production)
[ ] Performance requirements?
[ ] Budget constraints?
[ ] Security requirements?

Step 2: Design Architecture

[ ] Draw architecture diagram (Mermaid)
[ ] Define networking (VPC, subnets, security groups)
[ ] Plan compute resources (size, scaling)
[ ] Plan storage (database, file storage, cache)
[ ] Plan monitoring and alerting

Step 3: Write IaC

[ ] Create Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation templates
[ ] Use modules for reusable components
[ ] Parameterize environment-specific values
[ ] Follow naming conventions: {project}-{env}-{resource}
[ ] Tag all resources

Step 4: Security

[ ] Enable encryption at rest
[ ] Enable encryption in transit
[ ] Configure IAM with least privilege
[ ] Set up VPC and security groups
[ ] Enable audit logging

Step 5: Deploy

[ ] Plan: Review changes before applying
[ ] Apply to dev first
[ ] Verify in dev
[ ] Promote to staging
[ ] Verify in staging
[ ] Promote to production

Step 6: Monitor

[ ] Set up health checks
[ ] Configure alert rules
[ ] Create dashboards
[ ] Set up cost alerts

If a step fails

Step	Failure	Recovery
Step 5	Deploy to dev/staging fails	Run `terraform destroy` or equivalent; fix IaC; re-apply; never proceed to prod until dev/staging succeeds
Step 5	Deploy to production fails	Rollback via IaC (revert and apply previous state); investigate; fix in dev; re-test full pipeline
Step 5	Partial apply (some resources created)	Document what was created; run destroy/rollback for failed resources; fix and retry

Never apply infrastructure changes to production without explicit user confirmation. Require confirmation before terraform apply or equivalent on prod.