We Ditched Terraform 1.10 for CloudFormation: Reducing IaC Complexity for Our Small AWS Team We’re a 4-person engineering team managing 32 AWS resources across dev, staging, and production environments for a B2B SaaS product. For 18 months, we relied on Terraform 1.10 to manage our infrastructure as code (IaC). But by Q3 2024, the overhead of maintaining Terraform outweighed its benefits for our
Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
We Rewrote Our Angular 18 App in React 20 and Increased Developer Velocity by 40% Last quarter, our engineering team made the bold call to rewrite our 3-year-old Angular 18 production application in React 20. After 6 months of development, we cut over to the new stack with zero downtime, and the results have exceeded our expectations: we’ve measured a 40% increase in developer velocity, alongsid
White labeling is more common than you might think. When developing software, you often need to deploy the same application for multiple clients, each requiring their own customization: unique color palettes, logos, or specific variants for a link. Without a proper strategy, you might be tempted to simply clone the existing repository and implement client-specific changes on demand. However, this
El problema real Cuando trabajas en DevOps, inevitablemente enfrentas el caos de gestionar infraestructura manualmente. Cambios undocumentados, configuraciones inconsistentes entre ambientes y actualizaciones que rompen lo que funcionaba. Terraform resuelve esto con un workflow estructurado que convierte tu infraestructura en código versionable y reproducible. El workflow de Terraform es el cicl
El Problema Real Cuando comenzamos a usar Terraform, muchos nos hacemos la misma pregunta: ¿cómo sabe Terraform qué recursos ya existen en la nube? La respuesta está en el state file, un archivo que frecuentemente causa dolores de cabeza innecesarios cuando no se entiende bien. El state file es un archivo JSON que Terraform mantiene como fuente única de verdad sobre tu infraestructura. Contiene
Purpose of Variables in Terraform Variables prevent repetitive hardcoding of values in Terraform configuration files. They reduce errors due to inconsistent value entries across multiple resources. Simplify updating environment-specific configurations (e.g., changing from dev to stage). Types of Variables Based on Purpose Input Variables: Accept values from users or other sources. Output Variables
In this guide, we will walk through the step-by-step process of installing Terraform and preparing your local environment for infrastructure automation. Install Terraform on Linux Install AWS CLI Configure AWS credentials Verify your setup Set up VS Code for Terraform development # Update package list sudo apt-get update # Install required packages sudo apt-get install -y gnupg software-propertie