Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Using Terraform and related tools to automate and scale cloud infrastructure with maintainable code.
Setting up Terraform for AWS: what I got wrong, and how I fixed it
Part 1 of 3 in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)In 2023 I bootstrapped Terraform for my own AWS account. Three years on, looking back at that setup is professionally embarrassing — long-lived credentials, a single account, no tests. Here's what I built instead, and what I'd tell someone starting today.
How I used Terraform to manage all of Sudoblark's GitHub repositories — covering the three-tier data pattern, bootstrapping paradox, and drift detection.
How I replaced a Docker/EC2/MySQL monolith with a fully serverless REST API — and made the Python as data-driven as the Terraform.