There are several provisioning tools, but few have the multi-platform reach of Terraform. This series of posts show how we can use Terraform to stand up Cloud resources, reliably and securely.

• Terraform-Docker integration exercises
  19 Feb 2021
  Azure provides all the building blocks we need to securely run containers in the Cloud, we just need Terraform to glue them together
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• Terraform exercises (Part 2 - Secret management)
  20 Sep 2020
  Terraform provides a great way to create resources in the cloud using infrastructure-as-code. Just ensure you grant yourself permission to delete the things you create!
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• Beware open ports in Oracle Cloud's Default Security Lists
  12 Feb 2020
  Setting up a Network Security Group confers additional (OR) access, not restrictive access (AND)
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• Terraform exercises (Part 1 - Language)
  11 Sep 2019
  These exercises for part of the Terraform section of our Cloud training courses.
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• Create resource groups in Microsoft Azure using Terraform
  11 Aug 2019
  Resource groups hold everything together in Azure, like virtual containers for the resources we provision.
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• Set up Terraform to provision in Microsoft Azure
  05 Aug 2019
  Terraforming your Azure Cloud means building out a more predictable, reliable and extensible Cloud estate for the future
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• Get started with remote provisioning using Terraform
  30 Jul 2019
  Often local machines or firewalls make it impossible to run Terraform locally, but remote provisioning offers a convenient secure alternative
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• Transferring Terraform state in S3 over to another project
  22 Jan 2019
  Terraform state files in S3 are the way forward, but when you need to split a project, managing those state files requires care
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• Storing Terraform state in S3
  01 Oct 2018
  Terraform is a great solo tool but, when you start working together as a team, keep the tfstate files in the Cloud (S3)
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• Getting Started in the DevOps space
  01 Apr 2018
  The Development-Operations world is a wash with some fantastic tools, but sometimes getting started can be too great an impediment to realise the 'DevOps' efficiency promise.
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