terraform-happiness.md

Gangstead's 6-Step Plan to Terraform Happiness

1. Use Terragrunt
   • If you hit a rough edge with Terraform it's probably addressed by Terragrunt
2. Look at plan before proceeding with apply
3. Thou shalt not use someone else's module
   • Look at the module's source and copy/paste the terraform therein
   • You can make your TF simpler and you won't have to keep up with the multiple updates per month, with breaking changes, that the module makes.
   • But do write your own modules to keep dev/prod environments matching as close as possible
4. Update your providers
5. destroy your experiments when done so lest your AWS bill explode
6. Close AWS account and try again

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