Most multi-cloud Terraform writeups are hypothetical. The customer engagements I keep doing aren't, they're the same workload running on AWS, Azure, and GCP in parallel, and the lessons about where abstraction actually helps and where it bites are not what the architecture diagrams suggest.
Drift gets all the attention. The inverse problem, your statefile says a resource exists, the cloud says it doesn't, is weirder, harder to detect, and causes a different shape of failure. Closing out 2023 with the ghost-resource problem and a note on where IaC observability has to go next.
Every IaC vendor talks about drift in the abstract. Here's what it actually looks like in a real cloud account, the security groups that no longer match the code, the manual fixes that never made it back into the repo, and the next terraform apply quietly fighting reality.
Nobody starts greenfield. Most Terraform work is taking infrastructure already in the cloud and putting it under code. The import flow I've used on customer engagements, the gotchas that bite every time, and why 'good' Terraform from scratch can make brownfield import worse.
Three weeks after the BSL announcement, the OpenTF Manifesto became OpenTofu, now under the Linux Foundation. The fork happened faster than any IaC story I can remember. Here's what actually shipped, what migration looks like, and why this is structurally healthy for IaC.
HashiCorp moved Terraform from MPL to BSL on August 10. The license itself is narrower than the panic, but the panic is rational. Here's what actually changed, what it means for teams running multi-cloud Terraform in production, and what to do this week.
ChatGPT plugins shipped a month ago. Function calling shipped last week. The substrate for agents that take action on your behalf just landed, and the second-order problems are going to be ugly.
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