advanced~4h
Terraform in Production
Reviewing plans as a PR check in CI/CD, detecting drift proactively, the most common production pitfalls, and where Terraform's job ends and a configuration-management tool like Ansible picks up.
Learning objectives
- Advanced: Set up terraform plan as an automated PR check in CI/CD before anything is applied.
- Advanced: Identify common production pitfalls — unpinned provider versions, secrets leaking into state — and how to avoid them.
- Advanced: Explain the division of labor between Terraform (provisioning) and a configuration-management tool like Ansible (configuration), and why many production setups use both.
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Terraform in Production