HashiCorp Vault vs Ansible Vault
In today’s fast-paced DevOps world, securing sensitive data is paramount. Whether it’s API keys, passwords, or configuration files, safeguarding these secrets is critical to maintaining the integrity and security of…
How do I recover deleted Terraform state files?
There’s a particular kind of scary shock that comes with realizing your Terraform state file is gone. Maybe someone ran a cleanup script that was a little too aggressive. Maybe…
Terraform Actions: Tackling Day 2 Operations
So Terraform Stacks went GA and gave us a native way to handle multi-environment deployments without leaning on Terragrunt. Great. But here’s the question that keeps popping up in every…
The Terraform Feature Everyone’s Been Waiting For
I just checked out of the HashiConf 2025 keynote, and I need to talk about something that’s going to fundamentally change how we work with infrastructure as code. Forget Stacks…
MCP Servers and Agentic Terraform
If you thought Stacks, Actions, and Search were impressive, you haven’t seen anything yet. HashiCorp just dropped what might be the most significant infrastructure announcement of the year, and honestly,…
HashiCorp’s Infragraph Just Changed Everything
If you’ve been working with Terraform for any length of time, you know the feeling. That knot in your stomach before running terraform apply on production. The late-night scramble trying…
Terraform Stacks: What’s for Infra at Scale
Managing Terraform at scale has consistently presented operational challenges. The typical patterns include workspaces that proliferate uncontrollably, duplicated configuration across environments, fragile orchestration scripts, and the persistent risk that a…
Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
When it comes to managing infrastructure, Iโve seen two types of teams: those constantly battling unexpected issues on their servers and those who sleep peacefully at night. The secret behind…
Reducing Azure Costs with Terraform
Why Azure Costs Can Spiral Out of Control If you’ve ever checked your monthly Azure bill and muttered, “Wait, how did we spend this much?”โyouโre not alone. The flexibility of…
HashiCorp Vault: Authentication Methods Explained
Before you can ask Vault for a secret, you have to prove who you are. Thatโs what authentication methods are all about. In my first post in this series, I…