Terraform Certification Tips

I successfully passed the “HashiCorp Certified — Terraform Associate” exam last Friday and decided to share some advice for exam preparation. Make yourself a plan Make a list of things you are going to go through: links to the study materials, practice tasks, some labs, some articles on relative blogs (Medium, Dev.to, etc.). It should look at a “todo” or “check”-list. It may seem silly at first glance, but the list with checkboxes does its “cognitive magic”....

September 15, 2020 · Serhii Vasylenko

What are Terraform Modules and how do they work?

Surprisingly, a lot of beginners skip over Terraform modules for the sake of simplicity, or so they think. Later, they find themselves going through hundreds of lines of configuration code. I assume you already know some basics about Terraform or even tried to use it in some way before reading the article. Please note: I do not use real code examples with some specific provider like AWS or Google intentionally, just for the sake of simplicity....

September 9, 2020 · Serhii Vasylenko

Terraform CLI shortcuts

Here is some CLI shortcuts I use day-to-day to simplify and speed-up my Terraform workflow. Requirements — bash-compatible interpreter, because aliases and functions described below will work with bash, zsh and ohmyzsh. In order to use any of described aliases of functions, you need to place it in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file (or any other configuration file you have for your shell). Then just source this file, for example: source ~/....

August 25, 2020 · Serhii Vasylenko

Terraform explained in English

You might have heard about Terraform before, but if you have never tried it, this blog can help you to get the main point. A few words about “Infrastructure as Code" First of all, Terraform is the way to manage the infrastructure in the form of code. The same way developers write the code to create applications, Terraform code can create the resources in virtual data centers (i.e., clouds). Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, is when you describe and manage your infrastructure as… (guess what?...

May 2, 2020 · Serhii Vasylenko