🚀 “You Think You Know Terraform? 80% of Engineers Get This Wrong!” 🚀

You set up your Terraform code, deployed infrastructure, and everything looks good—until one misconfiguration wipes out your entire environment.
⚡ Here’s how to master Terraform in 5 minutes! 😱
💡 Terraform Best Practices:
🔥 1. Never Store Your Terraform State Locally → Always use remote storage (S3 + DynamoDB, GCS, Azure Blob) to avoid conflicts.
🔥 2. Use Modules for Reusability → Stop hardcoding configurations! Modularize VPCs, EC2, and databases to scale efficiently.
🔥 3. Lock Your Provider Versions → Unexpected updates = broken infrastructure. Define versions in terraform.tf to prevent surprises.
🔥 4. Always Run terraform plan First → This previews changes before applying them, avoiding accidental deletions.
🔥 5. Use Workspaces for Environments → Dev, Staging, and Prod should never share the same state file. Use terraform workspace to isolate them.
💡 Why should YOU care?
Because one bad Terraform update can take down an entire production system.
💭 Your move:
Have you ever broken something with Terraform? Drop a 🌍 if this helped you! ⬇️
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Amay Jaiswal
Amay Jaiswal
AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Cloud Computing | Linux | Terraform & CloudFormation | AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM) | Docker | Jenkins | CI/CD Pipelines | MySQL | Java | Jira | Postman | Git/GitHub