Anton Babenko – How to build scale & maintain 45 pub Terraform mod. with over 100 million provisions

Testing

Learn how to build and maintain a massive Terraform module with over 45 pubs, provisioned with over 100 million infrastructure elements, and discover the strategies and tools used to ensure scalability and reliability.

Key takeaways

Testing is hard, but it’s necessary for Terraform modules.
There are many testing frameworks available, such as Terratest, Kitchen Terraform, and TeraTest.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles.
Code reviews are important, but it’s hard to get people to contribute to reviewing code.
Terraform AWS modules are a collection of open source modules for provisioning AWS resources.
There are many limitations to using Terraform, including difficulties with testing and documentation.
Testing is important for developers, but it’s hard to get users to care about infrastructure testing.
Terraform and Pulumi can be used equally successfully, but Terraform has more mature community support.
Documentation is important, but it’s hard to create good documentation.
Code analysis tools, such as TFLint, can help improve code quality.
Local stack testing is important, but it’s hard to get it to work with real AWS accounts.
Infrastructure testing is hard, but it’s necessary for ensuring infrastructure stability.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles and human-friendly language.
Community involvement is important for creating good open source projects.
It’s hard to get people to contribute to open source projects, but it’s worth it.
There are many people who rely on Terraform, and it’s important to keep it maintained.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles and human-friendly language.
Code analysis tools, such as TFLint, can help improve code quality.
Local stack testing is important, but it’s hard to get it to work with real AWS accounts.
Infrastructure testing is hard, but it’s necessary for ensuring infrastructure stability.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles and human-friendly language.
Community involvement is important for creating good open source projects.
It’s hard to get people to contribute to open source projects, but it’s worth it.
There are many people who rely on Terraform, and it’s important to keep it maintained.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles and human-friendly language.
Code analysis tools, such as TFLint, can help improve code quality.
Local stack testing is important, but it’s hard to get it to work with real AWS accounts.
Infrastructure testing is hard, but it’s necessary for ensuring infrastructure stability.
Writing good Terraform modules requires understanding of software development principles and human-friendly language.
Community involvement is important for creating good open source projects.
It’s hard to get people to contribute to open source projects, but it’s worth it.
There are many people who rely on Terraform, and it’s important to keep it maintained.

Anton Babenko – How to build scale & maintain 45 pub Terraform mod. with over 100 million provisions

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