terraform

I’ve recently been experimenting with Hashicorp’s Consul in my home infrastructure because I want to use it to provide service discovery and automatic DNS provisioning when I create Proxmox instances with Terraform. Consul is a bit of a hefty beast to get to grips with and getting DNS lookups working when you have ACLs enabled can be a little tricky - it’s taken me a day or two of going round in circles to figure this one out....

Storing Terraform’s remote state in Minio Whilst AWS’s free S3 tier is almost certainly sufficient to store Terraform’s remote state, it may be the case that you have a requirement to keep the data on-site, or alternatively if you’re using Terraform in an air-gapped environment then you have no choice but to self-host. Enter Minio. If you’ve not used it before, the TLDR is that Minio provides an S3-compatible API in a single binary....