Have you ever wished there were custom functions in Terraform? Well now there are! Sort of. Let me explain. If you’d prefer your information in video format, check out the …
The release of Terraform 1.9 brings with it a welcome improvement regarding input variable validation. In this post I’ll review the change in functionality and provide a few …
When you create a new organization in Azure DevOps, you’ll quickly discover you’re not able to run any pipeline jobs using Microsoft-hosted agents. In fact, if you kick …
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool. The key term here being code. And where do you store your code? In a version control system like GitHub! I recently published a video …
[Last updated 2024-04-30 for Terraform 1.8 and OpenTofu 1.7] Terraform and OpenTofu are both IaC tools that share a common ancestry. OpenTofu was created when HashiCorp shifted the …
The terraform taint command marks an existing resource in state data for replacement. On it’s surface, this seems like a useful feature. However, it’s actually a …
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 …
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 …
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 …