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I've been working with Terraform for over 6 years now, and during this time, I've encountered several common mistakes when designing modules that can lead to frustrations, mismanagement, and even mistrust in the tool itself.

My infrastructure team, as part of a larger Terraform Restructure initiative, is moving our Terraform repositories to be apply-after-merge. There are significant changes in process between these two approaches; not all are obvious.

In Terraform, I've found that KISS > DRY and that the use of complex data structures as inputs are a gilded foot gun.

I haven't blogged about it, but a couple of years ago I went through an acquisition. It was a pretty incredible experience and overall pretty positive. I'm sure I'll blog about that at some point, but today I want to discuss a change that I experienced from going through that … a change in me. A change I wish happened a lot sooner. I figured out how to not concern myself with most problems.

Early in the COVID-19 lockdown extravaganza 🎉 my wife and I purchased a new home and moved in. It was a stressful time, filled with uncertainty. In the aftermath, I found myself with pretty terrible internet service and since we are both working in isolation, I am hellbent on finding out why … So I'll use the tools I know – Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker – to collect data, analyze it, and still probably not figure it out … but it's something to do.