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Validating IaC with Terraform and GitHub Actions

This post is an accompaniment to my second appearance on the Azure DevOps Labs YouTube channel. My presentation focused on validating your Terraform code as part of a GitOps …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Managing Terraform Cloud with the TFE Provider

While working on my newest Pluralsight course, Getting Started with Terraform Cloud, I learned a lot about how Terraform Cloud functions and the services it includes. As I was …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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Choosing Between Count and For-Each

Terraform has two looping mechanisms for creating multiple resources, count and for_each. The count meta-argument has been around for a long time, but for_each is a relative …

Ned Bellavance 9 min read
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Replacing the template_cloudinit_config data source

I was working on updating some Terraform code as part of a consulting engagement and I came across an EC2 configuration that was using the template_cloudinit_config data source to …

Ned Bellavance 8 min read
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Using the Terraform Cloud Configuration Block

Terraform 1.1 brings with it some new cool Terraform Cloud management options. Cloud blocks, Tags, and Workspace commands Oh MY! But wait. What was broken about the old system? And …

Ned Bellavance 8 min read
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Terraform Apply? When External Change Happens.

In an ideal world, all changes to your infrastructure would be managed through Terraform. In reality, that doesn’t always happen. Which can leave you in a bit of a conundrum …

Ned Bellavance 13 min read
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Using the Moved Block in Terraform 1.1

The release of Terraform 1.1 has brought with it a new configuration block type called moved. This is a super-cool new block that helps with when you want to refactor your …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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GitHub Actions with Terraform

Recently, I was a guest on the Azure DevOps Lab YouTube channel, talking about using GitHub Actions with Terraform to deploy infrastructure on Azure. April Edwards was a gracious …

Ned Bellavance 11 min read
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What I Learned Building an Azure DevOps Pipeline with Terratest

I am in the process of creating a series of liveProjects for Manning Publishing, one of which involves deploying and managing an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using Terraform and Azure …

Ned Bellavance 10 min read