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How to create an end-to-end golden image workflow with the HCP Packer image registry

In this blog, I would like to tell you about new cool features that Terraform 1.1 and 1.2 bring. It feels like Terraform has doubled its speed of delivering the new features after they released the 1.0. 🤩 It’s been only a few months since Terraform 1.1 was released with the moved block that empowers the code refactoring. Now Terraform 1.2 is almost ready (as I am writing this blog in early May 2022) to bring three new efficient controls to the resource lifecycle....

Here I want to share two Apple Shortcuts that I created for myself and use to process images for this blog: Image Optimization and Image Resize About a year ago, I posted the blog about the Automator quick action to optimize PNG and JPEG images with TinyPNG service and save the processed images next to the original ones. While that Automator-based solution still works, macOS Monterey now supports Shortcuts — a new automating tool that seems to substitute the old fellow Automator....

Terraform built-in functionality is very feature-rich: functions, expressions, and meta-arguments provide many ways to shape the code and fit it to a particular use case. I want to share a few valuable practices to boost your Terraform expertise in this blog. Some code examples in this article will work with Terraform version 0.15 and onwards. But if you’re still using 0.14 or lower, here’s another motivation for you to upgrade. Conditional resource creation or how to implement the if-else statement in Terraform Let’s start from the most popular one (although, still may be new for somebody): whether to create a resource depending on some fact, e....

Terraform by itself automates a lot of things: it creates, changes, and versions your cloud resources. Although many teams run Terraform locally (sometimes with wrapper scripts), running Terraform in CI/CD can boost the organization’s performance and ensure consistent deployments. In this article, I would like to review different approaches to integrating Terraform into generic deployment pipelines. Where to store the Terraform code Storing Terraform code in the same repository as the application code or maintaining a separate repository for the infrastructure?...