Terraform state is the backbone of your terraform project for provisioning your cloud infrastructure. When you work on large infrastructure provisioning with Terraform then it is always more than one developer or team of a developer working on the same terraform project. The problems arise when two developers try to …

When writing a Dockerfile or docker-compose.yml you often need to rely on the ENVIRONMENT variable and there could be many reasons behind it, for example - If your container is using Python then you might wanna rely on the Python version which is set into the host machine’s environment variable. another use case …

Terraform has its backbone known as terraform.tfstate file any change you do with your infrastructure will have its presence in the terraform.tfstate file. So when you work with Terraform for managing and provisioning your infrastructure then terraform will always create a terraform.tfstate file for you. In this blog …

The Docker failed to compute cache key error is result of docker buildcommand which is executed on a directory where the Dockefile is not present. I had this issue when I was working with one of my project on my windows laptop and my directory structure looked like this - 1 \parent-directory 2 - test-file-1.py 3 - …

For managing the cloud resources(EC2, S3 Bucket) on AWS you need to supply the AWS secrets(region, access_key, secret_key) inside the terraform file. You can use the plain text AWS Secrets inside your terraform file and it should work fine. But from the security standpoint, it is strongly discouraged to use plain text …

Terraform worksapces is a very logical concept where you can have multiple states of your infrastructure configuration. To put this in simple words if you are running an infrastructure configuration in development environment then the same infrastructure can be run in the production environment. The main benefit of …

Terraform file always grows as you span your infrastructure and add multiple servers to your cloud-hosted infrastructure. But imagine you have terraform file which contains lots of resources but you only do not want to apply the complete terraform configuration but instead, you just want to run one specific or some …

Terraform is an IaC(infrastructure as Code) framework for managing and provisioning the infrastructure but have you ever thought of creating only a single terraform configuration file for managing the complete cloud infrastructure. Well, it sounds insane because if you only have a single file for managing the complete …

This blog post will help you to understand how to do SSH into AWS EC2 instance using Terraform. It is quite often that you create your terraform script for setting up your EC2 instance but after starting your EC2 can not SSH into EC2 instance created with Terraform. When you are working on the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud) …

Terraform Provisioners are used to performing certain custom actions and tasks either on the local machine or on the remote machine. The custom actions can vary in nature and it can be - Running custom shell script on the local machine Running custom shell script on the remote machine Copy file to the remote machine …