Terraform: Uncovering Best Practices for Building Modules
summary
Covers how to design Terraform modules for Infrastructure as Code, detailing best practices and anti-patterns for structuring IaC projects. Focuses on concrete module construction techniques in Terraform and what to avoid when organizing modules and project layout.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Event introduction
- 11:04Talk and Terraform overview
- 12:28Code style best practices
- 14:12Tools: terraform fmt and tflint
- 18:26Code reuse and organization
- 21:16Outputs as final product
- 23:41Infrastructure as a product
- 24:02Locals for code simplification
- 25:26Careful use of for_each
- 26:51Feature flags with count
- 30:04Module and repo organization
- 35:45Avoid root module variables
- 37:06Monorepo risks
- 39:12Source with version pinning
- 41:21Folder structure by environment
- 42:23Pipeline importance for modules
- 47:25Static validation and testing
- 50:33Terraform learning resources
- 51:16Q&A
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