How to maintain IaC projects with Terraform
Maintaining IaC projects with Terraform is crucial to ensure their longevity, accuracy, and security. This involves managing the state, updates, changes, and versions of infrastructure configurations, among other tasks. In this chapter, we will discuss best practices for maintaining IaC projects with Terraform, covering topics such as managing state, employing version control, testing, and more. By embracing a well-defined standard module structure, you lay the foundation for streamlined development, enhanced collaboration, and the mastery of resource orchestration at scale.
Follow a standard module structure
Modules in Terraform offer a way of packaging and reusing resource configurations. They are essentially containers that group multiple resources that are used together. Modules consist of a collection of .tf
and/or .tfvars
files kept together in a directory. Elevate your deployment game by following these best practices, each a...