It's Day 10 of the AWS Challenge, and today I'm exploring the features that transform Terraform from a simple declarative tool into a flexible, intelligent conf...
Introduction It’s Day 9 of the AWS Challenge, and today’s focus builds on yesterday’s topic: Terraform lifecycle meta‑arguments. This deep dive covers controll...
Recap of Previous Weeks Over the past five weeks, we built a small but realistic Azure environment while learning the core Terraform concepts. We started by de...
If you missed our previous session you can catch up herehttps://dev.to/ikoh_sylva/altschool-of-engineering-tinyuka24-month-10-week-1-3cmi. !Image of an image in...
What are Data Sources? You can use data sources to fetch information about existing VPCs, subnets, AMIs, security groups, etc. hcl data 'data_source_type' 'dat...
On day 5 we saw variables in action. Today we dive deeper into type constraints in Terraform. Primitive Types Primitive types are the basic building blocks: str...
Data Source Think of a data source like a phone directory with a username and phone number as key‑value pairs accessed via an API. Instead of hard‑coding value...
Advanced Functions in Terraform Building upon the foundational functions covered in Day 11, today we explore more specialized functions that enhance Terraform'...
Project Structure terraform-project/ │── main.tf │── variables.tf │── outputs.tf │── providers.tf │── terraform.tfvars │── modules/ │ └── ec2/ │ ├── main.tf │...
Why Project Structure Matters in Terraform Terraform is declarative and modular by design. Its power becomes clear when you start organizing infrastructure int...
Overview In the first part of this series I covered the high‑level architecture and the tools I chose for building my personal website. This post dives deeper...
Configuring S3 as a Terraform Backend Terraform can store its state in an S3 bucket. Below is a minimal configuration that sets up the S3 backend: hcl terrafor...
