Terraform stands out as a powerful tool for managing and provisioning cloud resources. However, as your infrastructure grows more complex, you might find yourself repeating code blocks, leading to verbose and hard-to-maintain configurations. To address this, Terraform offers a dynamic…
When I first started with Terraform to write configuration to deploy infrastructure on AWS and GCP, I did not know how powerful Terraform is. I wrote configuration code like an armature — repeated code blocks, hardcoded values, and bloated and inflexible infrastructure…
When I first started writing Terraform, I was terrible at it. I found myself drowning in a sea of repetitive blocks, each stuffed with hardcoded values. A simple change required me to update my code at multiple places, and the…
Terraform is the most popular and widely used Infrastructure as a code tool out there, irrespective of the cloud platform. It has become the synonym for IAC. All credit goes to Hashicorp people who saw a need to have a…
If you go back two decades, everyone used those physical servers (produced by IBM, HP, and Cisco) which took weeks to setup correctly before we could run the applications on them. Then came the time of virtualization, Sharing computing resources…
GCP Project: Listing all projects under a Google Cloud organization with Python When working on Google Cloud Platform, we often need to list all GCP projects under an organization. This is a common task for cloud administrators, and there are…
If/Else statement in Terraform is much more powerful than you think. In this blog, I will explain how to use the If/Else conditional statement in Terraform effectively. There are two opinions when it comes to the If/Else statement in Terraform…
Setting up a custom development environment on google cloud workstation with Terraform Having your development IDE in the cloud where your applications run makes much more sense for speed, security, and flexibility. Read – Why you should switch to remote…
In this blog, I will talk about gcpdiag, an open-source command line tool by google cloud to identify cloud misconfigurations in google cloud projects. Introducing gcpdiag, Google Cloud approach towards troubleshooting as code. According to Gartner survey, until 2025, upto…
In recent years Terraform has become a well-known name in the cloud community and Knowing terraform is a primary requirement for most of the devops jobs these days. It certainly helps if you are a terraform certified professional. What is…
“Your resume is your first impression in front of recruiters. You don’t want to give a vague idea of yourself just because you were too lazy to put enough effort into your resume.” I take a lot of interviews and…