I build tools that make managing infrastructure easier to run and safer to scale. Day-to-day I’m in the Terraform and Go trenches, maintaining widely used modules, authoring providers, and contributing to Terraform Best Practices and Terraform Proverbs. Beyond infrastructure, I architect data engineering pipelines and specialize in building scalable ML/AI platforms for companies in the cloud. I live in the CLI, am the creator of Red-Teaming TTPs, and am a MITRE, OWASP, and Debian contributor!
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Terraform Proverbs
Published on 24 Nov 2024
Simple, Clear, Maintainable
Clear is better than clever.
Version everything.
Modules should be reusable, not rigid.
State is a liability; manage it wisely.
Every apply should be predictable.
Outputs are for sharing.
Understanding count versus for_each is essential.
Descriptions are for users.
Use positive variable names to avoid double negatives.
Null is not the same as nothing.
Prefer a single object over many related variables.
Terraform is declarative; trust it to converge.
Never output secrets.
Upgrade deliberately, not impulsively.
Name with underscores, not dashes.
Using locals makes code descriptive and maintainable.