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…

This tutorial shows how to run docker natively on Android, without VMs and chroot. - docker.md

Besides some new cool features introduced in Terraform v1.2.0 like precondition and postcondition check blocks – a new warning message was part of the release as well. While I was trying to deploy something, I received the following warning in the console:…

Another ez solution as part of the Terraform issue series. This time being the following one: ╷ │ Error: Invalid character encoding │ │ on providers.tf line 1: │ 1: ��provider "aws" { │ │ All input files must be UTF-8 encoded. Ensure that UTF-8 encoding…

Dedicating and entire virtual machine (VM) to an agent might be costly and give you control on a lot of layers that you do not care about…

random_password is a Terraform resource used for generating as the name suggests, random passwords which could be utilized for sensitive secret’s initialization of other resources – users, databases, etc. Here I’m going to show you how to reuse random_password…

To my Windows-PowerShell-Terraform-Azure users out there, I just want to share a quick nugget on how to escape the annoying double quotes.

GitHub Copilot works every step of the way, from an open issue to reviewing and merging a pull request. Use it in your editor, the terminal, on your desktop, and on GitHub.

Admin Consent by definition enables granting access to Azure-registered applications that requires admin approval securely.

Terraforming GCP projects from scratch could be a lot of hustle and bustle as you need to enable almost every freaking Google service (API) per project. That’s probably first and foremost, then you got service account impersonation, permissions and-so-forth…

Using Cloudflare Zero Trust with Kubernetes to enable kubectl without SOCKS proxies

The idea of GCP service account impersonation is to run and deploy Terraform infrastructure without the need of using service account keys as it introduces security risks along the way – not rotating keys frequently enough and hardcoding them being only part…