A summary of real Terraform ecosystem trends post-IBM acquisition, covering Stacks GA, Terraform Actions, and new search/import features.
Analyzes HCP Terraform's RUM pricing model, arguing it penalizes detailed infrastructure management by charging for small control-plane objects.
A summary of HashiConf 2024, covering major announcements like Terraform Stacks and the event's focus on Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management.
Explains how to use new provider-defined functions in Terraform 1.8, including syntax and examples like AWS's arn_parse.
Overview of the Terraform Certified Associate exam update to version 003, covering key changes and study guidance.
A tutorial on building a minimal distributed key-value database using Hashicorp's Raft library in Go, with a single-file example.
A guide to studying for the HashiCorp Terraform Certified Associate exam, including a breakdown of exam objectives and a sample chapter.
A preview of Morpheus Data and HashiCorp ahead of Cloud Field Day 6, analyzing their cloud management and infrastructure automation platforms.
A technical guide to automating the deployment of the full HashiCorp stack (Consul, Vault, Nomad, Traefik) using Vagrant and Ansible for infrastructure.
A wrap-up of a blog series documenting all built-in Terraform interpolation functions, including project reflections and lessons learned.
Explains the Terraform zipmap() function, which creates a map from two equal-length lists, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform values() function, which extracts values from a map, with examples and use cases.
Explains the uuid() function in Terraform, covering its usage, purpose, and technical details of RFC 4122 v4 UUID generation.
Explains the Terraform urlencode() function, its purpose for URL sanitization, and provides usage examples.
A technical guide explaining the upper() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, usage examples, and practical applications.
Explains the Terraform trimspace() function, its usage, and examples for removing trailing whitespace from strings.
Explains the Terraform transpose() function, which flips a map of lists to group keys by common values, with practical examples.
Explains Terraform's title() function, its behavior, and its limitations for capitalizing strings.
Introduction to using HashiCorp Consul as a service mesh for building offensive infrastructure, covering basic and hardened configurations.
Explains the substr() function in Terraform for extracting substrings, including examples and use cases.
