Terraform Best Practices

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Practical checklist for using Terraform with GitOps: Terraform's declarative state and large ecosystem (≈3,500 providers, ≈15,000 community modules) enable versioned rollbacks and consistent environments. Use infraCost, terrascan, tfsec and tribi for cost and security scanning; address drift (resources changed outside code) as the main failure mode. Dragon Drop presents the open-source tool Cloud con Search to detect unmanaged resources, generate import blocks and state files, integrate infraCost/terrascan/tfsec/tribi, and open pull requests containing the reports.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:48Cloud maturity
3. 2:51Infrastructure as code
4. 8:19Why use Terraform
5. 10:51GitOps
6. 11:37Terraform and GitOps
7. 13:24Terraform declarative nature
8. 15:55Common Terraform obstacles
9. 17:42Drift handling strategies
10. 20:34Cloud Con Search tool
11. 22:41Conclusion

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