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07 Jul

Load Terraform Backend Output Into Ansible

During my experience with both Terrform and Ansible it became apparent to me that all available Ansible modules for Terraform do not include functionality to combine two the two automation tools together. We produce Terraform infrastructure on AWS. We try to automate absolutely everything from EC2 instances to DNS records and security groups using Terraform and then provision the servers using Ansible with required software...

01 Jul

Backend for Terraform Backend

by Katapult Cloud

in Automation, AWS, Terraform

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This post focuses on describing my approach to create a backend for Terraform backend. The problem is that Terraform is unable to utilise backend before it's created. Let's explain the problem in practice. I have created a small Terraform project below. provider "aws" { shared_credentials_file = "../credentials" region ...