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We host a weekly live chat on DevOps and IaC. In our second live chat session, @antoniscloud and @darkosubotica shares what makes a good template, documentation best practices, and different strategies to deploy Terraform templates.

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4/4 .Scaling across environments. Enable and disable environments from Terraform files on the go.

3/4 .Managing changes. As the configuration changes, Terraform is able to determine what changed and create incremental execution plans which can be applied.

2/4 .Planning. Terraform generates an execution plan describing what it will do to reach the desired state, and then executes it to build the described infrastructure.

1/4 .Cloud-agnostic. Terraform allows a single configuration to be used to manage multiple providers, and to even handle cross-cloud dependencies.

Why build IaC tools on Terraform?. ☑️ Terraform works with multi-cloud systems (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM, Tencent Cloud, etc). ☑️ Terraform builds, changes and versions infrastructure efficiently. More details 👇.

7/7.Minimize Blast Radius. Push only a few configurations on the infrastructure at a time. That way, if something went wrong, the damage to the infrastructure will be minimal and can be corrected quickly. Deploying plenty of configurations at once is very risky.

6/7.Use Self Variable. In instances when you don’t know the value of the variable before deploying an infrastructure. E.g. you want to use the IP address of an instance which will be deployed only after the Terraform “apply” command. use self.ipv4_address as a self variable.

5/7.Lock State File. When more than one developer tries to run the Terraform configuration at the same time, the state file could be corrupted and lost. The locking mechanism prevents that. Recommendation: use AWS DynamoDB.

4/7 .Backup System State. These files keep track of the metadata and resources of the infrastructure. These files called terraform.tfstate are stored locally inside the workspace directory. Always backup the state files of Terraform.

3/7.Use shared modules. The Terraform registry has many modules readily available. Make changes to the existing modules as needed. Each module should concentrate on only one aspect of the infrastructure, e.g. creating an AWS EC2 instance, RDS database, or a Peering Connection.

2/7.Naming. Let’s say you want to make three different workspaces for different environments in a project. Rather than naming them as env1, en2, env3, you should call them dev, stage, prod.

1/7 .Structuring . if you are using terraform in development, UAT, and production environments, have separate directories for each of them. Even the terraform configurations should be separate

Did you know we host a weekly live audio chat ⚡️on all things cloud, DevOps and IaC? . While the audio chats are not recorded, the show notes are, and in 7 threads here 👇 our community member Mark Smith share several IaC best practices 👊.

5⃣ Understand how Infrastructure as Code affects your IT architecture. 👉 Modularization of resources and dependencies allow for easier debugging.👉 Ability to reuse codebases.👉 Modular architectures fit in with the modularization of all other layers of the OSI stack.

4⃣ Watch Terraform syntax rules closely. 👉 Terraform is a syntax sensitive language compared to JSON or YAML. Obtain a strong foundational knowledge of Terraform and build from basics to prevent future debugging complications.