I thought of writing this blog because I have a personal AWS account which I generally use for learning purposes but a couple of months ago assigned the Elastic IP address to one of my experimental EC2 accounts and forgot about deleting the EC2 instance as well as releasing(deleting) Elastic IP addressfor about a …

Testing infrastructure as code (IaC) involves verifying the functionality and behavior of the code used to manage and provision infrastructure in a cloud environment. IaC allows organizations to automate the provisioning and management of their infrastructure, which can improve efficiency, reduce errors, and enable …

To remove a resource from the Terraform state, you can use the $ terraform state rm command. This command allows you to remove resources from the Terraform state file.

1. How to remove a single resource from terraform state file? Here are the steps which you should follow before you remove any resource - List the …

Terraform null_resource is one of the features which is underused by DevOps professionals. When I first looked at Terraform's documentation for null_resource I felt they had not put much effort into explaining it. But once I tried it myself, I started using it in almost every project - it is the standard way to run a …

In a Terraform project there are situations where a Developer feels a need to pre-check if the resource exists or not and many times I also wondered if is it possible to check the existence of the resource to avoid the duplicity of the resource. In this blog, we are gonna see - Why it is not possible to decide …

Working on a cloud platform always sounds interesting but what if you have some framework where you can automate your cloud infrastructure. In this article, we are going to see How to set up your first Virtual Machine on Google Cloud The platform using Terraform This article is aimed at the beginner who is just …

In programming world we have concept of variables, similar to that in Terraform we also have concept of Terraform Locals. What is Terraform locals? Here is an very basic example code which show - "How to create locals in Terraform?" 1## Example of local with static value 2 3locals { 4 my_local = …

This is a troubleshooting blog post on how to fix the following error when running aws ecr get-login-password --region <region> | docker login ... to log in to AWS Elastic Container Registry - 1Error saving credentials: error storing credentials - err: exit status 1, out: `Post …

Terraform is the most popular IaC(Infrastructure as Code) tool for provisioning your cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Azure. Terraform capabilities are not limited to cloud infrastructure instead you can use Terraform for other container infrastructure provisioning also. In this blog post, we will take a look at …

The Terraform's module tls_private_key can help you to generate the TLS Private key. Here is what happens when you use Terraform's tls_private_key module - At first you generate RSA or ECDAS private key. After generating the private key we need to encode the private key as PEM file. After that tls_private_key module …