Grounded, brutally honest Terraform education. Learn the concepts that actually matter in production, including the failure scenarios that other tutorials skip.
Most Terraform tutorials teach you the happy path. These tutorials teach you what actually happens in production environments, including state management nightmares, drift detection, and recovery scenarios.
Three Learning Tracks:
These tutorials must be completed sequentially. They build the mental model you need before touching production infrastructure.
Learn why Terraform's state file is more important than your HCL code and what happens when it disappears
Master predicting whether Terraform will update resources in-place or destroy and recreate them
Stop hardcoding values and learn how variables prevent configuration drift across environments
Prevent state corruption from concurrent modifications and enable team collaboration
Adopt unmanaged cloud resources into Terraform without destroying and recreating them
Query existing infrastructure without managing it - reduce state bloat and dependencies
Every tutorial has starter code, solutions, and working examples. Clone the repo and follow along.
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