Rishav Dhar explains why using a merge queue with Terraform or OpenTofu keeps your main branch both deployable and safe. It blends the safety of pre-merge validation with the simplicity of post-merge automation, ensuring only changes that apply cleanly are merged.

Kirill Shirinkin introduces a Terraform provider for OpenAI, allowing you to define and manage critical org‑wide AI infrastructure (like projects, service accounts, API keys, invitations, and rate limits) as code for better productivity and security. It also supports generative AI w"orkflows within Terraform, enabling neat "vibe‑coded” automations such as image generation and AWS Lambda deployment directly from your infrastructure definitions.

Pravesh Sudha shows us how to launch a Dockerized Tetris game on AWS ECS using Terraform. In just a few steps, he walks through testing the game locally, configuring Terraform to provision infrastructure like an ECS cluster (on Fargate), security groups, IAM roles, and deploying the container.

Marko Milosavljevic walks through building a secure, serverless API by integrating AWS API Gateway with Cognito Authorizers and Lambda functions, all deployed via Terraform. It covers creating an HTTP API Gateway with CORS support, defining Lambda functions for retrieving and creating items, setting up a Cognito User Pool and JWT authorizer for authentication, and wiring everything together with secure route permissions. AB: Marko writes a lot about Terraform, too.

Dhruvin Soni outlines how Terraformer lets you reverse‑engineer your existing cloud infrastructure into Terraform HCL and state files. The article explains how Terraformer scans resources, handles multi‑cloud scenarios, and supports filtering and module generation, while also addressing challenges like messy HCL, missing dependencies, and sensitive data that demand careful review and refactoring.

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