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Terraform best practices — how to structure your Terraform projects.

When starting out with Terraform it’s hard to know what is considered ‘best practice’ in a number of areas. This post is the first in the series which focuses on point 1 in the list, how to structure your Terraform projects. The way you split your Terraform code into files is subjecti ve. For a very simple project it may absolutely be easier to lump everything together in one file and forget about it.

Modules will be tackled in a separate post, for now, just know that they are really just folders that hold config files that are coded in such a way that the code can be re-used.