Building Dynamic Configuration into Terraform

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LaunchDarkly builds a feature flag evaluation provider for Terraform that wraps the Go SDK and exposes four data sources (Boolean/string/number/JSON) so plan/apply evaluates flags as configuration values. Teams use it to change SLO thresholds, monitoring alerts and replica counts without PRs; flag updates can trigger automatic terraform applies via API and restrict which options are selectable to prevent bad values. The prototype is dogfooded internally and a Terraform Cloud registry/product integration release is planned.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:24Who are we
3. 0:45Growing pains
4. 1:47Managing permissions
5. 2:07Controlling access points
6. 2:31Feature flags
7. 3:14Terraform provider
8. 4:11Terraform Cloud
9. 6:51Conclusion
10. 7:19Outro

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