This is the companion page to my free Terraform Associate full course - five hours and twenty-five minutes of hands-on Terraform in nineteen chapters. The video walks through every lab; this page gives you the timestamps, the detailed blog post for each chapter (most chapters are a condensed version of a post on this …

For the last few weeks I have been building and shipping a small SaaS of my own, and I want to document the infrastructure side while it is fresh, because most "deploy to Cloud Run" tutorials stop at gcloud run deploy and skip everything that makes a service production-ready: a managed database, secrets, a …

Securing Sensitive Data in Terraform Table of Content Introduction Securing Sensitive Data with Terraform 2.1 Securely managing Terraform variables 2.2 Encrypting Sensitive Data at Rest 2.3 Encrypting Sensitive Data in Transit 2.4 The use of sensitive argument in Terraform to prevent logging of sensitive data …

1. Introduction Security in the cloud is not just an option; it's an imperative. Much like a well-guarded fortress, your cloud infrastructure needs robust, scalable defenses. AWS provides us with a wealth of tools and best practices for this task, but managing them manually can feel like trying to organize an unruly …

Terraform, HashiCorp's infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, is a favorite among developers and system administrators for its simplicity and power in managing and provisioning data center infrastructure. However, as with any technology, there are complexities that arise as we go deeper. One such complexity is loading …

TL;DR Yes. Terraform does not care where the API lives. On-premises it talks to vCenter (vmware/vsphere), Proxmox VE (bpg/proxmox), libvirt/KVM (dmacvicar/libvirt), Canonical MAAS for bare metal (canonical/maas) or a Docker engine (kreuzwerker/docker), and the plan/apply/destroy loop is identical to AWS. The …

Today, we'll unravel a common hurdle that you might encounter while working with Terraform and AWS: Error creating IAM Role. MalformedPolicyDocument: Has prohibited field Resource This error can put a wrinkle in your cloud deployment process, but don't worry. I'm here to guide you through it, step by step. By the end …

TL;DR null in Terraform means "not set". Passing null to a resource argument is the same as omitting the argument; passing it into a string, a count or a for_each is an error. Replace it with coalesce(var.port, 8080) when the fallback is a plain value, with var.name != null ? var.name : …

One of the key features that sets Terraform apart is its modular architecture, enabling the reuse of code and fostering collaboration across teams. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into the concept of output variables in Terraform modules and explore how they can be leveraged as inputs for another module, enabling …

Greetings to all DevOps enthusiasts and cloud technology practitioners! In today's blog post, we'll delve deeper into one of the key components of infrastructure as code (IaC) - Terraform. More specifically, we'll discuss how to reference a resource created by a Terraform module. This capability provides a more …