At BTI360 we really care about the growth and development of our teammates. We offer half a dozen internal classes a year, provide free technical books, send teammates to conferences every year, and have an…

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A prior post covered how some teams at BTI360 use CloudFormation to manage Terraform’s AWS backend infrastructure, including the state bucket and lock table. Our previous post introduced three permission levels for accessing Terraform state:…

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We previously discussed using Terragrunt to manage your Terraform backend configuration. As a refresher: A backend controls where Terraform’s state is stored Terraform state maps resources created by Terraform to resource definitions in your *.tf…

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We previously covered several limitations of Terragrunt managing the creation of the state bucket, log bucket, and lock table used for storing Terraform remote state in AWS. For instance, we often want full control over…

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Terraform uses state files to track the resources it creates back to resource definitions in your *.tf files. Each root module has a backend configuration that determines how its state is stored. Terraform uses a…

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We wish Terraform made it easy to create a variable hierarchy out of the box, but it doesn’t. In this blog post we will be showing how we have implemented a Terraform variable hierarchy using Terragrunt and YAML files.

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Many teams at BTI360 use Terraform as their infrastructure definition tool. We’re also fond of Terragrunt and often use it as a foundation for our infrastructure workflow. Getting started with Terraform and Terragrunt, however, can be a challenge….

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