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Deprecated Terraform provider template causes `Incompatible provider version` error

Did you recently switch to a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM processor architecture)? The chances are high that you will see an Error: Incompatible provider version when running terraform init the next time. That’s because Hashicorp does not provide the tem...

Defining IAM Policies with Terraform safely

Are you still defining IAM policies using heredoc syntax (<<EOF ... EOF) or jsonencode()? You can do better! As a result, terraform validate can tell you about typos before you apply them, and you get better auto-complete support from your IDE. Re...

Terraform, can you keep a secret?

Did you know that Terraform state can - and most likely does - contain sensitive data? A few examples of sensitive information stored in the Terraform state: Initial password for an RDS instance. Unencrypted value fetched from SSM parameter (SecureStri...

CloudFormation vs Terraform 2022

The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of your infrastructure (see Understanding Infrastructure as Co...