Infrastructure Drift Detection and Remediation
If you’re not running scheduled terraform plan, you have drift. You just don’t know it yet.
I learned this the hard way. A colleague made …
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57 articles about terraform development, tools, and best practices
Terraform Testing: Unit, Integration, and End-to-End
Most Terraform code has zero tests. That’s insane for something managing production infrastructure. We wouldn’t ship application code …
Read Article →AWS CDK vs Terraform: A Practical Comparison in 2026
I use both. Terraform for multi-cloud, CDK when it’s pure AWS and the team knows TypeScript. That’s the short answer. But the long answer …
Read Article →Terraform Modules: Design Patterns for Reusable Infrastructure
I once inherited a project with a single main.tf that was over 3,000 lines long. No modules. No abstractions. Just one enormous file that deployed an …
Terraform State Management Best Practices in 2026
I’ve been managing Terraform state across production environments for years now, and if there’s one thing I’m certain of, it’s …
Read Article →Infrastructure as Code Best Practices: Beyond the Basics
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has revolutionized how organizations manage their cloud resources, enabling teams to provision and manage infrastructure …
Read Article →Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: From Basics to Best Practices
In today’s cloud-centric world, managing infrastructure manually is no longer feasible. As organizations scale their cloud presence, the …
Read Article →Splitting Terraform Modules into Separate Git Repositories
In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for managing infrastructure resources. As your Terraform …
Read Article →Managing Multiple Environments with Terraform Workspaces
Managing infrastructure across multiple environments such as development, staging, and production can be a daunting task. Terraform, a popular …
Read Article →Controlling and Understanding Parallelism Impact on the DAG
When working with large-scale infrastructure deployments, managing the provisioning and orchestration of resources efficiently becomes crucial. …
Read Article →Private Application Load Balancer for EKS in Terraform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a powerful combination of services for building, deploying, and managing applications. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes …
Read Article →How to Generate Terraform using a Bash Shell script
To generate Terraform code using a Bash shell script, you can utilize Python within the script. Here’s an example of how you can achieve this: …
Read Article →How to Generate Terraform using Python
To generate Terraform code using Python, you can utilize the power of the language and various libraries to dynamically create and manipulate the …
Read Article →Make EKS cluster private with NodeGroup access
The Theory
To make an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster private and allow nodes to join through a node group, you need to follow a few …
Read Article →How to connect an API Gateway to Inline Lambda in Terraform
To connect an API Gateway to an inline Lambda function using Terraform, you can follow these steps:
- Define your API Gateway and Lambda function …
How to create a Site-to-Site VPN in Terraform
To create a site-to-site VPN using Terraform, you can use the aws_vpn_gateway and aws_vpn_connection resources from the AWS provider. Here’s an …
How to create a Lambda in Terraform
To create an AWS Lambda function using Terraform, you need to define the necessary resources in a Terraform configuration file. Here’s an …
Read Article →How to create a Bastion server in Terraform
To create a Bastion server using Terraform, you need to define the necessary resources in a Terraform configuration file. Here’s an example of …
Read Article →How to you create a Cross Account Role in Terraform
To create a cross-account role in Terraform, you need to perform the following steps:
1. Define the IAM role
Define the IAM role in the Terraform …
Read Article →How to create Public and Private Subnets in Terraform
To create public and private subnets in Terraform, you can use the AWS provider to define your network configuration. Here’s an example …
Read Article →Create Internet Gateway & Assign to EC2 in Terraform
To create an Internet gateway and assign it to an EC2 instance using Terraform, you can follow these steps:
Step 1: Set up your Terraform environment …
Read Article →How to configure Terraform to use Local Providers from Nexus
If your organization has blocked registry.terraform.io and has instead downloaded the provider binaries to Nexus, then you can do the following to …
How to Deploy a Java Application in AWS ECS using Terraform
In order to deploy a Java application into AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) using Terraform, we need to consider a few different things.
Step 1 - …
Read Article →How to set the Hostname on a Linux server with Terraform
If you need to set the hostname on a linux server, and you are using Terraform, then you can do the following:
Include the provisioner block and set …