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203 articles from this blog
A technical guide explaining the flatten() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, use cases, and examples.
Explains the floor() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, usage examples, and behavior with different data types.
Explains the Terraform file() function, its syntax, use cases, and provides practical examples for reading file contents.
Explains the Terraform element() function for retrieving items from a list, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform distinct() function, which removes duplicate values from a list, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform dirname() function for extracting directory paths from file paths, with examples for Windows and Linux.
Explains the Terraform contains() function for testing list membership, with examples and use cases.
Explains the concat() function in Terraform for combining lists, part of a series on built-in interpolation functions.
Explains the Terraform compact() function, which removes empty strings from a list, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform coalescelist() function, which returns the first non-empty list from multiple arguments, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform coalesce() function, which returns the first non-empty string from a list of arguments, with examples.
A technical guide explaining the Terraform cidrsubnet() function for subnet calculation, with examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform cidrnetmask() function, which converts an IP range in CIDR notation to a subnet mask in dot notation.
A guide to running Ansible on Windows 10 using Docker for Windows, detailing the setup process and rationale for choosing containers.
Explains the Terraform cidrhost() function for calculating specific IP addresses within a CIDR range, including examples and use cases.
Explains the Terraform chunklist() function, which splits a list into smaller sublists of a specified size.
Explains the Terraform chomp() function, which removes trailing newlines from strings, with examples and practical use cases.
Explains the ceil() interpolation function in Terraform, including its syntax, usage examples, and behavior with different data types.
Explains the bcrypt() function in Terraform for creating secure password hashes, including examples and usage.
Explains Terraform's base64sha256() and base64sha512() functions with examples, part of a series on built-in interpolation functions.
