Terraform's Best Practices and Pitfalls — thenewstack.io

Wix's Hila Fish shares her experience using Terraform and how she learned to use it for scaling operations. AB: If you haven't met Hila in real life, you should :)

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Finding the right balance between Terraform and CloudFormation — medium.com

Or Cohen describes how to think about data sharing between IaC tools. The article covers CloudFormation Stack outputs, AWS SSM Parameter Store, and more options.

Terraform For Expressions — brendanthompson.com

Brendan Thompson describes how to write for expressions in Terraform to filter, group, order, and mutate information. You can easily construct complex objects based on existing information/configuration or from configuration passed in via input variables or ingested.

Terraform: why data sources and filters are preferable over remote state — devopsian.net

You often need to share data or output resources between your Terraform modules. This article describes some of the trade-offs with aws_ and terraform_remote_state data sources.

Tracking Infrastructure with SSM and Terraform — www.davehall.com.au

Storing AWS ARNs in the AWS SSM Parameter Store exposes your configuration for other teams. AB: Simple, yet, powerful way.

Open-source projects

JamesWoolfenden/sato — github.com

Sato converts AWS CloudFormation into Terraform. AB: Another ambitious project by James Woolfenden. 👍

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