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12 Terraform Best Practices to Improve your TF workflow

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Author
Ioannis Moustakis
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2,862
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9
Language
English
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3
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Summary

This article explores best practices for managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform. It covers topics such as using remote state, existing shared and community modules, importing existing infrastructure, avoiding hard-coding variables, consistently formatting and validating code, implementing a naming convention, tagging resources, policy as code, secret management strategy, testing code, enabling debug/troubleshooting, and utilizing helper tools. The article also discusses key Terraform concepts such as the configuration language, resources, data sources, modules, state, and providers. It emphasizes the importance of using version control, shifting to collaborative IaC culture, and structuring Terraform projects according to specific needs and use cases.

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