Terraform Practices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Watch this talk packed full of useful advice for Terraform code structure and best practices.

You may already know the basics of using Terraform and building modules, but what are the best practices for your unique team, company, and use case?

»What You'll Learn

While learning what practices are most safe and efficient for your own company will take experimentation, this talk should help lead you down the right path by providing some broadly applicable advice and giving guidance on which Terraform practices are good, bad, and ugly for the following areas of Terraform management:

• File structure

  • Read: Refactor Monolithic Terraform Configuration

• Applying classic code best practices

  • Read: The Pragmatic Programmer

• Structuring your TF code base (workplace usage)

  • Read: Module Creation - Recommended Pattern

• Terraform execution

  • Read: Running Terraform in Automation

• Practices enforcement

  • Read: Policy as Code

This talk by Hila Fish of Wix Engineering is full of useful advice for keeping your infrastructure code light, fast, safe, and maintainable.