Terraform Azure Automation: Guide to Cloud Infrastructure
If you’ve worked with Azure, chances are you’ve provisioned cloud infrastructure manually—whether it’s a storage account, Azure Front Door, or a Kubernetes cluster. Clicking through the Azure Portal may work for a single resource, but what happens when you need to replicate this across multiple environments like dev, staging, and production? This is where Terraform […]
Azure Terraform Tutorial: Optimize Deployments for Cost & Speed
As cloud adoption continues to surge, organizations increasingly turn to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to manage their Azure environments efficiently. This Azure Terraform tutorial will show you how to fine-tune your Terraform code and deployment process to reduce costs and boost performance. Simply using Terraform isn’t enough—optimizing it is where the real […]
Terraform tolist: Convert and Handle Lists Like a Pro
Terraform tolist aka tolist() function is a handy tool for converting data into lists. It helps you ensure your configurations are clean and error-free. You can use tolist() to loop through resources or shape outputs. Let’s look at how it works and when to use it. 📚 Related Reading: 👉 Terraform Map Usage Explained: Learn […]
Terraform Map: When and How to Use Them Effectively
Terraform Map is a simple key-value data structure. It allows you to define a list of related configuration values in one place. You can reuse these values later in your Terraform stack. 📚 Related Reading: 👉 Terraform tolist: Learn how to define and use tolist() 👉👉 New to Terraform Variables?: 101 Guide and Best Practices […]
AWS Atlantis at Scale: How to Streamline Terraform Workflows
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, many DevOps teams use AWS with Atlantis to automate Terraform workflows. This open-source tool links Git pull requests to Terraform operations. It helps teams improve Infrastructure as Code practices across different environments. It also helps maintain governance on a large scale. Terraform is widely adopted for provisioning AWS infrastructure—but […]
How to Use Terraform Variables: Best Practices
Imagine you are using your favorite IaC tool – Terraform, to deploy infrastructure for three environments: development, staging, and production. Each environment needs its own configurations, resource names, tags, and other customizations, however the underlying architecture remains the same. Without Terraform variables, you would create copies of the same configurations with minor changes in values. […]
How to Troubleshoot & Debug Terraform on AWS
Using Terraform to provision AWS infrastructure is an excellent cloud resource automation practice. However, when doing so, you will indefinitely run into errors. Such problems may range from state file dependency to AWS-specific configuration errors. The guide helps you debug Terraform and fix common problems. It covers deploying AWS configurations with Terraform. You will learn […]
10 Common Terraform Errors & Best Practices to Avoid Them
Terraform Errors are more common than most teams realize. While terraform has become the IaC tool of choice for many organizations. The reality is that Terraform makes it deceptively easy to get started but considerably more challenging to get right. Many teams discover this only after they’ve accumulated significant technical debt. Simple deployments can quickly […]
Terraform for Azure: A Beginner’s Overview
Terraform is an open-source tool made by HashiCorp. It helps simplify the deployment and management of cloud services. Now, it supports almost all the cloud providers, including Azure. The goal of this guide is to provide a clear view of Terraform on Azure. It combines the power of declarative infrastructure management with many Microsoft Azure […]
