As your Terraform codebase scales across dozens of microservices and environments, you will find yourself copy-pasting the same ‘backend’ and ‘provider’ blocks repeatedly. Terragrunt is a powerful wrapper that eliminates this repetition, allowing you to define global configurations once.
Welcome to Tier 3: Advanced Platform Engineering. You now know how to write reusable modules and store state remotely. But how do you safely deploy identical infrastructure to both Staging and Production without them colliding? We explore Workspaces and Directory Isolation.
Modules are the functions of the Terraform ecosystem. In this episode, we will build a reusable AWS VPC module from scratch, define explicit inputs and outputs, and consume it from a separate Root Module. Stop copy-pasting code and start building a self-service infrastructure catalog.
Many Kubernetes tutorials overwhelm you with hours of theory before ever touching a terminal. Here, we embrace the HowToForge philosophy: we build it first, then we dissect how it works.
