Terraform providers are TF plugins that abstract external APIs, mostly cloud provider APIs. These providers enable the user to easily manage their cloud environments by exposing resources. Basically, they sit between the Terraform engine and the supported…

Since the Ubuntu 22.04 version has been released, there were a lot of rumors that there is a big improvement in terms of the Ubuntu style and features, so I decided to upgrade it. After the upgrade, everything was working as expected, until I noticed that…

As I continue on my Terraform issues resolving journey, I wanna share yet another not quite common TF issue.

On today’s menu we got yet another TF error to resolve. For any other Terraform-related issues, browse by category here.

In this article, get started with an overview of the Azure DNS Private Resolver service.

cowsay is a configurable talking cow. Contribute to piuccio/cowsay development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two popular log aggregators. Find out the similarities and differences between Fluentd vs. Fluent Bit and when to use each.

For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.

Usually when developing an Ansible role, most of the times we need to write a jinja2 template for some configuration file. Speaking from personal experience, I was writing an elasticsearch role and I needed to add an elasticsearch.yml jinja2 template, and…

Using AWS Aurora auto-scaling will increase the resources to handle the workload and connections. So that way you can see a bunch of replicas that are taking care of the workload. Connecting to one of the aurora endpoints can lead you to the following error:…

Yet another Terraform error-related post. For any other Terraform-related issues, browse by category here.

A repo used to show examples file/folder structures you can use with Terragrunt and Terraform - gruntwork-io/terragrunt-infrastructure-live-example

terraform plan assess the current TF configuration to decide whatever the desired state is up-to-date by comparing it with the current one, thus creating a so-called plan with all of the pending changes if any. Now, the plan is exportable to a file and this…

Error: too many command line arguments is one more common error which obviously points out an issue related to arguments not being interpreted correctly. Although there’s no universal solution, I’ll share with you some ideas on how to resolve it.

Kubernetes is awesome. It’s the wave of the future. There’s no denying its capabilities and the role it currently plays, and will play, in…

terraform init initialize the current Terraform working directory. I guess it does a lot under the hood which unfortunately won’t be the topic for today. Instead, I’ll share with you a bash script that could help with initializing the TF backend stored on…

Podman is well known for its seamless integration into modern Linux systems, and supporting systemd is a cornerstone in these efforts. Linux commonly uses th...

If you have ever tried to terraform apply tfplan.txt with tfplan.txt being a plain text terraform plan command output file (or even tfplan.tf), you’ll get the following error message: ╷ │ Error: Failed to load "tfplan.txt" as a plan file │ │ Error: zip:…

Today I’m going to show you a quick solution on how to resolve just another TF error: ╷ │ Error: Saved plan is stale │ │ The given plan file can no longer be applied because the state was changed by another operation after the plan was created. ╵

Continuing on my Terraform issues journey, I’m going to try to help you with resolving yet another common TF error: ╷ │ Error: Argument or block definition required │ │ on providers.tf line 1: │ 1: ��provider "azuread" { │ │ An argument or block definition…