Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Start Here
Why clicking in consoles stops working Your first cloud resources come from clicking. You open the AWS console, click through a wizard, create a serve…
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Observability as Code: Managing Dashboards and Alerts with Terraform
The Problem with Click-Ops Dashboards Your team has 200 dashboards. You don't know who owns them. Half are broken. The rest show yesterday's reality. …
Terraform at Scale: Lessons from Managing 500+ Resources
When Terraform Gets Slow Our Terraform state file grew to 500+ resources. Plans took 8 minutes. Applies timed out. State locking conflicts were daily.…
CloudFormation now validates every stack operation, not only change sets
I have watched a CloudFormation deploy fail at minute nine because I misspelled a property, and I have quietly made peace with the fact that this is a…
Infrastructure as Code with OpenTofu/Terraform
The origin story explained why Dinghy renders TSX to Terraform. This post is the how , at two levels. First we create an EC2 instance by hand from the…
Terraform vs Pulumi: IaC Tools Compared
Overview Terraform and Pulumi are the two leading infrastructure as code tools. Terraform uses HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) while Pulumi let…
Preventing Cloud Configuration Drift Without the Headache of State Files
The transition to Infrastructure as Code revolutionized how engineering teams deploy and manage cloud resources. Instead of relying on error-prone man…
IaC Drift Management: Unexpected Infrastructure Discrepancies and
In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, infrastructure management is becoming increasingly complex. To navigate this complexity and automate process…
Your CI-CD Pipeline Is Your Real Infrastructure Control Plane
Terraform defines desired state. Kubernetes reconciles workload state. Cloud consoles expose state. None of those systems decides whether infrastructu…