Terraform Plugin Framework Custom Types One of the great new things the Terraform Plugin Framework provides is a stronger focus on strict typing and with that, the ability to develop custom types. One of the first issues I discovered straight out of the gate when attempting to build a new Terraform Provider with the Plugin Framework was that the data I was modelling for a resource used UUIDs for its record ids....
Terraform If you’ve been living under a rock or happen to be a newcomer in the DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering space, Hashicorp’s Terraform enables provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure. It’s essentially a glorified diffing tool for any cloud resource that, as long as a Terraform Provider exists, can ensure the state of your infrastructure is as expected when written in Hashicorp Config Language (HCL). As a forewarning before digging deeper, it has been common to hear some Linuxy sysadmin-looking neckbeards in-passing talking about infrastructure as code, better known as IaC, being the bee’s knees and how they keep managing to give Dave a good ribbing after causing the Great Network failure of ‘22 after performing a Git force push…...