There has been a lot of buzz related to Azure Terrafy lately with presentations at HashiConf Global and videos from Ned Bellavance. I have always had rather tempered expectations of the tool with good reason and my recent experience cemented my initial thoughts. Limitations The tool is not going to turnaround and generate elegant HCL … Continue reading First Thoughts on Azure Terrafy
I am often in a privileged position to watch people develop their skills based on the roles I am in. With respect to Terraform, I see folks learn the basics where they're hard coding values into all of the resource properties, then they move on to using input variables, and so on. Another interesting inflection … Continue reading Why Do We Write Terraform Modules?
When following tutorials out there on Terraform, a consistent approach seems to be passing in authentication secrets through variables: provider "azurerm" { features {} subscription_id = var.subscription_id client_id = var.client_id client_secret = var.client_secret tenant_id = var.tenant_id } This is a very low friction way to handle authentication when first beginning with Terraform because the overall … Continue reading Authentication with Terraform
I have noticed a disturbing trend within the Terraform community beginning with Yevgeniy Brikman’s, “Terraform Up & Running,” although it could predate the material. Monorepos! I don’t recall if Brikman called them monorepos, or anything for that matter, I just recall the practice.
Creating a Git repository is an easy enough task: mkdir my-new-repo cd my-new-repo git init If this is just a local repository, you might be safe to just start using it. However, if there is any chance that this repository is going to be stored in a platform, whether it is public or private, it … Continue reading Creating a Git Repo with Terraform In Mind
Dustin Dortch 