A refactor that touched no database changed our database password
In May I merged a pull request that moved our tagging into a shared locals block. Twelve files, no resources added or removed, a plan reviewed by tw…
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Everything as Code: The Infrastructure Revolution Transforming Modern Engineering
Everything as Code: The Infrastructure Revolution Transforming Modern Engineering Introduction "Everything as Code" is no longer a nice-to-have phil…
When Azure Verified Modules appeared, I had to decide what of my own work to throw away
When a credible standard appears next to work you already own, most of that work quietly splits into three piles you cannot tell apart by looking: t…
Из ClickOps в код: как я оживил Terraformer и научил его говорить с провайдерами напрямую
Почти у каждой команды есть «накликанная» инфраструктура. Кто-то когда-то создал VPC в консоли, кто-то вручную настроил бакет, DNS-зоны живут отдель…
The hotfix somebody made by hand that our nightly apply reverted
We had an incident at 19:20, fixed it at 19:35, wrote it up, and went home. The same incident started again at 02:07 the next morning with nobody aw…
Looking at what we are Building
So now that you have a basic understanding of how Terraform works , before you start running any terraform command against a real AWS account, two t…
Infrastructure Drift: Detecting and Preventing It
Your Terraform says the firewall rule is A. The cloud console says it's B. Someone changed it manually and didn't tell anyone. This is infrastructur…
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 ser…
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 dail…
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…
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 t…
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 l…
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 m…
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 proce…
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 infrastruc…