When I was trying to work with a module in Terraform, I came across an interesting issue. The module in question created an Azure AD service principal and optionally a secret for …
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of OIDC authentication for GitHub Actions using Azure AD. Naturally, I immediately thought of how I could use this to remove …
Terraform Cloud (TFC) is a pretty cool service with a bunch of excellent features. But what if you decide it’s just not working out? Sorry TFC. It’s not you. It’s …
This post is an accompaniment to my second appearance on the Azure DevOps Labs YouTube channel. My presentation focused on validating your Terraform code as part of a GitOps …
While working on my newest Pluralsight course, Getting Started with Terraform Cloud, I learned a lot about how Terraform Cloud functions and the services it includes. As I was …
Terraform has two looping mechanisms for creating multiple resources, count and for_each. The count meta-argument has been around for a long time, but for_each is a relative …
I was working on updating some Terraform code as part of a consulting engagement and I came across an EC2 configuration that was using the template_cloudinit_config data source to …
Terraform 1.1 brings with it some new cool Terraform Cloud management options. Cloud blocks, Tags, and Workspace commands Oh MY! But wait. What was broken about the old system? And …
In an ideal world, all changes to your infrastructure would be managed through Terraform. In reality, that doesn’t always happen. Which can leave you in a bit of a conundrum …