Terraform destroy will no doubt provide you a clean slate to work with your infrastructure but it is not needed to run terraform destroy before running terraform apply or plan commands. There is one caution while working with terraform destroy command, it is not advisable to run it on a production environment because …

The terraform error Your query returned no results. Please change your search criteria and try again can be misleading and can cause an increase in your debugging time with your Terraform configuration. I have also faced the same issue while I was trying to set up my aws_instance on AWS. But interestingly this issue …

Terraform data sources can be beneficial if you want to retrieve or fetch the data from the cloud service providers such as AWS, AZURE, and GCP. Most of the time when we use Terraform along with AWS/AZURE/GCP then we always send data in terms of instructions or configuration. But what if you want to get the …

Terraform resource Meta-Arguments can be useful while setting up your cloud infrastructure. The resource arguments depends_on, count, for_Each, provider, lifecycle has some features such as - You can create multiple aws_resource using the count for_each can be used for iteration and can also help you to create …

Terraform Dynamic Block is important when you want to create multiple resources inside of similar types, so instead of copy and pasting the same terraform configuration in the terraform file does not make sense and it is not feasible if you need to create hundreds of resources using terraform. If we describe terraform …

Working in the AWS cloud is always fun until you are not paying your AWS bills from your pocket. Being a developer we work on our developer’s machine and we do not much worry much about resources(CPU, Memory, and Disk space) because nowadays developer’s machines (Laptops/desktops) are very powerful. Apart …

When you are working with collection variables inside Terrafrom then you must understand the concept of loops with count, loops with for each and `for loop, otherwise, it will be really hard to iterate over collections such list, map and set. This article is particularly focused on understanding how the loops work. We …

In this article we are going to look on terraform output values. Terraform output values will be really useful when you want to debug your terraform code. Terraform output values can help you to print the attributes reference(arn, instance_state, outpost_arn, public_ip, public_dns etc) on your console. The typical …

Working the [Terraform][3] it's always fun but it is easier when you know all the concepts very well. There is one more concept Terraform locals which comes very handy when you are working with very large terraform configuration files. Terraform locals are quite similar to Terraform variables but Terraform locals …

In this article we are going to troubleshoot an issue related to Terraform and AWS. This is occurs when you are trying to use your Old or expired - Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) of your aws account. You are error should look like - Error: error configuring Terraform AWS Provider: error validating …