Tag: terraform
All the articles with the tag "terraform".
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Inside Terraform: How for_each and count Expand Resources
A deep dive into Terraform's expansion mechanism — how for_each and count transform configuration blocks into multiple resource instances in the graph.
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Deprecating Terraform Variables and Outputs in Terraform 1.15
Terraform 1.15 introduces deprecation warnings for variables and outputs. Learn how this works under the hood and what it means for your configurations.
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Inside Terraform: How tfdiags Powers Error Handling
A deep dive into tfdiags, Terraform's diagnostic and error handling system — how errors, warnings, and source ranges flow through the codebase.
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Inside Terraform: go-cty & Evaluation - Values in Terraform
How Terraform evaluates expressions using go-cty for value representation and HCL for parsing — a deep dive into the evaluation engine internals.
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Inside Terraform: References - How Terraform Connects the Dots
How Terraform resolves references between resources, variables, and modules — tracing the dependency graph from HCL expressions to execution order.
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Inside Terraform: addrs - Everything Needs an Address
A deep dive into Terraform's addrs package — how every resource, module, and variable gets a unique address that drives the entire execution engine.
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Inside Terraform: A series about the internals of Terraform
A deep-dive blog series by a Terraform Core engineer exploring how Terraform works internally — from address parsing to graph expansion and evaluation.
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Terraform Actions Usage Patterns: A Growing Reference Guide
A curated and growing list of common usage patterns for Terraform Actions, showing real-world examples of non-CRUD operations in Terraform configuration.
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Handling Recursive API Patterns in Terraform Providers
How to implement Terraform resources, data sources, and actions for APIs with recursive structures using the Terraform Plugin Framework.
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Designing a Terraform language feature like Terraform Actions
How we designed Terraform Actions — the key design decisions behind integrating a new language construct for non-CRUD operations into Terraform.