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How I accidentally deleted a production database with Terraform

How I accidentally deleted a production database with Terraform

Not my fault. The CI made me do it. I swear.

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Apr 09, 2025
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Terraform doesn’t deserve your love. Let me tell you why.

If you don’t know what Terraform is, it’s a tool for managing infrastructure as code. I don’t remember its origin accurately, but the initiative probably started after an engineer tried to start an EC2 instance on AWS and stumbled upon all the dropdowns, checkboxes, and buttons to click on the con…

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