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Using Optional Arguments in Terraform Input Variables

Well hot damn! Terraform 1.3 has introduced an incredibly popular feature for the Terraform community: optional arguments. This is a feature that has been requested for a long …

Ned Bellavance 4 min read
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Validating IaC with Terraform and GitHub Actions

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 …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Managing Terraform Cloud with the TFE Provider

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 …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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Choosing Between Count and For-Each

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 …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Replacing the template_cloudinit_config data source

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 …

Ned Bellavance 8 min read
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Using the Terraform Cloud Configuration Block

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 …

Ned Bellavance 8 min read
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Terraform Apply? When External Change Happens.

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 …

Ned Bellavance 13 min read