Terraform articles!

Here’s a list of all the Terraform-related articles I’ve published on my blog. I keep this page updated with any new articles I publish on Terraform so feel free to bookmark it, hope they help you out and enjoy!

In order of date published (most recent first).

Current number of articles: 86!

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Terraform Contains Function

Terraform Force-Unlock Command

How to Use Ignore_Changes Argument in Terraform Lifecycle

How to Manage Terraform State with GitLab

Terraform with Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines

Using Azure for Infrastructure as Code

How to Use Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Terraform

How to Use Terraform Try & Can Functions

Terraform File Paths — Path Module, Root and Cwd

How to Generate Images with Terraform Graph Command

How to Use Terraform Toset Function

Terraform Coalesce Function — How to Use it & Examples

Terraform Jsonencode Function — Definition & Examples

Terraform State Rm: How to Remove a Resource From State File

How to Use Optional Arguments in Terraform Variables

Terraform Resources Overview

How to Use Terraform Flatten Function

What is Terrascan?

How to Deploy AWS Autoscaling Groups with Terraform

Terraform Merge

Terraform Map

Terragrunt Tutorial

How to Create & Use Gitignore File With Terraform

How To Create IAM Role Using Terraform

How to target resources in Terraform

What is TFLint?

What is Checkov?

Using Terraform Helm Provider to Deploy Applications

Managing Datadog with Terraform

Create an EC2 instance on AWS with Terraform

How to Test Terraform Code — Strategies and Tools

Terraform Environment Variables Introduction

Terraform for loop

Manage and deploy Kubernetes Resources with Terraform

Manage Multiple Terraform Versions With tfenv

Terraform console command

Using Terraform to set up and deploy Docker containers

How to Use the If / Else Statement in Terraform — Examples

Formatting Terraform Code With the Terraform fmt Command

How to Use the Terraform AWS Provider

Managing Terraform state

The Lifecycle of a Terraform Resource — Lifecycle Meta-Argument

Terraform Providers

How to use the Terraform join and split functions

Using the Terraform Apply Command

Terraform Cheat Sheet

Terraform local values

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Init — Command Overview with Quick Usage Examples

Creating Terraform for an AKS Cluster with Opta

Format and Mount a VM disk using Terraform in Azure

Generate Terraform code automatically for your Azure project using Nubesgen!

Terraform Count and For_Each Meta-Argument Overview

Enable Azure SQL Server vulnerability assessment using Terraform

The BEST way to structure your Terraform projects!

Terraform null provider and null_resource explained

Terraform ‘for_each’ meta-argument

Terraform variable validation

Terraform on Azure— Getting started with a hands-on workshop!

Deploying to multiple Azure subscriptions using Terraform

Access secrets in an existing Azure Key Vault with Terraform

Terraform Conditional logic and dynamic configuration blocks

Managed Identities in Azure with Terraform

Fixing Terraform ‘Error acquiring state lock’ in Azure

Building VM images in Azure using Packer and Deploying with Terraform, in an Azure DevOps pipeline!

Hook your Azure VM into Log Analytics with the MMA agent VM extension… using Terraform!

Fixing the Terraform Console Output Encoding in Azure DevOps

Using Terraform to configure SQL Server on an Azure VM (IaaS)

Terraform Best Practices — Testing your code

Terraform Best Practices — Limit resources in your project

Terraform Best Practices — Using variables

Terraform Best Practices — Hold your state file remotely, not on your local machine

Terraform Best Practices — Use a consistent format and style

Terraform best practices — using a consistent naming convention

Terraform best practices — using modules

Terraform best practices — how to structure your Terraform projects.

Creating a CI/CD pipeline to deploy Terraform on Azure in GitLab

Automating the creation of an Ansible hosts file from Terraform on Azure

Creating a Windows VM in Azure using Terraform — which way is best?

Terraform “SkuNotAvailable” Message

Understanding Azure Virtual Network Peering — Configuring in Terraform!

The ‘best’ way to format and structure Terraform code?

Converting information from a spreadsheet into Terraform formatted variable files…part 2!

Converting information from a spreadsheet into Terraform formatted variable files…part 1!

Tagging in Terraform on AWS — Merging maps and inline tags!

Finally….a little bit about me…

I was delighted to be awarded the Hashicorp Ambassador accolade for 2024, thanks to everyone who has read this blog to make this possible!

I was pleased to first pass the Terraform exam on August 18th, 2020, and rectify passing the 003 exam on June 29, 2023. I also hold the Terraform: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP) badge which I achieved on May 26th 2022.

If you are interested in connecting with me please do so through LinkedIn.

HashiCorp Ambassador 2024

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) was issued by HashiCorp to Jack Roper.

Terraform: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP) was issued by HashiCorp Partner…

Hashicorp Ambassador 2024 Badge

Terraform Certified Associate Badge

Terraform: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP) Badge

If you are interested in Kubernetes (K8S) check out my index of all my published articles here!

Cheers! 🍻

Jack Roper is Blogging on Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes and Cloud tech!